Usually means: Inheritance or heritage left behind.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word legacy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. legacy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legacy: Merriam-Webster
  3. legacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legacy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legacy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legacy, legacy: Wordnik
  8. legacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. legacy: Wiktionary
  10. legacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. legacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. legacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. legacy: Dictionary.com
  14. legacy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. legacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Legacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. legacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. legacy: Rhymezone
  20. legacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. legacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. legacy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. legacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. legacy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. legacy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. legacy: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. legacy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. legacy: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. LEGACY: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  10. legacy: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. legacy: Legal dictionary
  13. legacy: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. legacy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. legacy: Netlingo
  3. legacy: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. legacy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. legacy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEGACY, LEGACY, LEGACY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. legacy: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Legacy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legacy: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
noun:  Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
noun:  (education) The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
adjective:  (especially computing) Left over from the past; old and no longer current.

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