Ancestry vs Legacy - What's the difference?
ancestry | legacy |
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
(legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will
Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage
The descendant of an alumnus
(computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain
left behind; old or no longer in active use
As nouns the difference between ancestry and legacy
is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while legacy is money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.As an adjective legacy is
of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain.ancestry
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Alternative forms
* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)Noun
(ancestries)- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
legacy
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Noun
(legacies)- left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
- Because she was a legacy , her mother's sorority rushed her.
Adjective
(head)- They expect it to take years to process and import all the legacy data.
- ''A legacy number or legacy identifier means a number no longer in use (for a document, for example)."
