legacies
- 1Plural of legacy.
The will divided the estate into several legacies for distant relatives.
Two former presidents left contrasting legacies that historians still debate.
Note
A regular plural, with the y after a consonant turning to -ies, and it serves every noun meaning of legacy. A will divides an estate into legacies; historians weigh the legacies of an era; admissions offices count legacies, meaning applicants descended from alumni. The adjective never takes this ending: old software is made up of legacy systems, not legacies systems, because English adjectives do not mark the plural.
legacies is a form of legacy
legacy, noun: Something handed down from a predecessor or inherited from earlier times. Full entry
- Forms
- legacylegacies plural
- Spelling
- legacy → legacies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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