Legend
['ledʒ(ə)nd] or ['lɛdʒənd]
Definition
(noun.) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
Checker: Paulette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
(n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.
(n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
(n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
(v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend.
Editor: Meredith
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fable, myth, fiction, doubtful narrative, fictitious story.[2]. Motto (round a coin or a medal).
Typist: Zamenhof
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Myth, fable, marvellous_story, fiction
ANT:History, fact, actual_occurrence
Checked by Ernest
Definition
n. a marvellous story from early times: the motto on a coat of arms medal or coin: an inscription of any kind: a musical composition set to a poetical story.—n. Leg′endary a book of legends: one who relates legends: (pl.) a chronicle of the lives of saints.—adj. consisting of legends: romantic: fabulous.—n. Leg′endist a writer of legends.—Golden legend (see Golden).
Edited by Cary
Examples
- This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You know the legend of this house and garden? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was the son of---- Poor but honest parents--that is all right--never mind the particulars --go on with the legend. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was no record or legend of any prisoner with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't --now don't inflict that most in-FERNAL old legend on me anymore today! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Hence, I inferred, arose the legend of the Banshee. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Upon the last lid's polished field-- Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, Amy in letters gold and blue. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who _is not_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A second legend bears him to the sea-shore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- According to the legend, this great discovery elicited extravagant demonstrations of joy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The legend of Theseus tells of such a raid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Old Mrs. Mingott's foreign daughters had become a legend. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There is a legend of a peasant who lived near Paris through the whole Napoleonic era without ever having heard of the name of Bonaparte. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was veiled by the curtain of a Sumerian legend. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then there are Latin legends and rhymes at the bottom of each page. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Dejah Thoris related many interesting facts and legends concerning this lost race of noble and kindly people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But the truth of Lister, Modesto, and El Campesino was much better than the lies and legends. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Legends gather about the men who wrote it: those legends are absorbed by us almost with our mothers' milk. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His Saturday half-holiday he spent in the wood with his book of fairy legends, and that other unwritten book of his imagination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I had heard vague rumours, little more than legends they were, during my former life on Mars; but never had I seen them, nor talked with one who had. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One knew nothing, except for a few monstrous legends, of the rest of the world in which one lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whenever that strain is found in any race, there are to be found also thoughts and legends of sacrificial murders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, as we have already intimated, Yuan Chwang's account of Indian realities is swamped by his accumulation of legends and pious inventions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This book contained legends of the saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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