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Plural of legacy

regular plural

The plural of legacy is legacies.

Forms of legacy

Singularlegacy /ˈlɛɡəsi/
Plurallegacies
Countablecountable

Legacies in a sentence

  • As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in...
  • Bequests and legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.From the entry abate
  • Their legacies continue to influence us all today.From the entry legacies
  • Legacies of political commitment have influenced the ultras associations in the curvas.1997, Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Entering the field: new perspectives on world football, Berg Publishers. From the entry curva
  • “It’s a superinteresting area,” he said, beginning a discussion of Pericles’ funeral oration and the importance of honoring the legacies of those fallen in battle.2008 March 18, Adam Liptak, “A False Claim of Valor and a Cry of Free Speech”, in New York Times. From the entry superinteresting

Meaning of legacy

  1. noun Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
  2. noun Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
  3. noun The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.

Full definition of legacy

Questions about the plural of legacy

What is the plural of legacy?
The plural of legacy is legacies.
Is legacy countable?
Legacy is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: legacy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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