Empire vs Legacy - What's the difference?
empire | legacy |
A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
A state ruled by an emperor.
An expansive and wealthy corporation.
(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 empire and legacy
is that empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority 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.empire
English
(wikipedia empire)Noun
(en noun)- the McDonald's fast food empire
Derived terms
* American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empireExternal links
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English
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)."