ancestor's legacy
- noun
- /ˈænˌsɛstərz ˈlɛɡəsi/
:
legado de los ancestros
- She felt a deep responsibility to honor her ancestor's legacy by upholding family traditions.
Examples
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The museum exhibition explores the ancestor's legacy preserved in local art and crafts.
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Education and resilience were a crucial part of his ancestor's legacy.
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Honor your ancestor's legacy!
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We must honor our ancestor's legacy.
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She felt a deep responsibility to honor her ancestor's legacy by upholding family traditions.
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Education and resilience were a crucial part of his ancestor's legacy.
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The museum exhibition explores the ancestor's legacy preserved in local art and crafts.
Synonyms
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2.0
A custom or belief passed down in families and groups over time
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4.2
Things from the past that people keep and remember, for example money or achievements
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4.0
Traditions, beliefs, and customs people pass down in a family or society
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3.7
A quality, belief, or tradition that older family members pass down
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3.7
Traditions, objects, and customs people keep and pass on to future generations
A custom people have followed for a long time that is hard to change
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
ancestor's + legacy
The phrase simply combines the possessive 'ancestor's' (belonging to forebears) with 'legacy' (what is passed down), so the meaning 'heritage or traditions passed down from one's ancestors' is directly derivable from the parts. This is a straightforward compositional possessive noun phrase following common cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand it.
Etymology
Ancestor's legacy is like a picture of an old family trunk full of tools, letters and stories left by your grandparents. The image of the ancestor's things and the legacy they leave shows why the phrase means 'heritage' or family values passed down.