| Legacy 1. (n.) A gift by a will of money or personal property; a bequest; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. 2. (n.) A business with which one is entrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. Thesaurus Entries attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, by-product, codicil, coheirship, consequence, consequent, coparcenary, corollary, derivation, derivative, development, devise, distillate, effect, entail, event, eventuality, eventuation, fruit, gavelkind, harvest, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, issue, law of succession, line of succession, logical outcome, mode of succession, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, patrimony, postremogeniture, precipitate, primogeniture, probate, product, result, resultant, reversion, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, upshot, will |