legends
Meaning of legends
plural noun
- a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated.
the legend of King Arthur
according to legend he banished all the snakes from Ireland
- an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field.
the man was a living legend
a screen legend
- an inscription, especially on a coin or medal.
Middle English (in the sense ‘story of a saint's life’): from Old French legende, from medieval Latin legenda ‘things to be read’, from Latin legere ‘read’. legend (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 17th century.
Information about legends
- It is a name.
- The singular form of legends is: legend.
- Languages in which legends is used:
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Hyphenation of legends
leg-ends
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- legends is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
legends synonyms
Meaning a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events:
Meaning a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic:
Meaning a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation:
Meaning a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted:
Meaning an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment:
Meaning a spoken or written account of connected events; a story:
Meaning a supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend:
Meaning a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love:
Meaning the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth:
Meaning a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth:
Meaning a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition:
Meaning a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world:
Meaning the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way:
Meaning a myth or mythology:
Meaning a myth or mythos:
Meaning spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing:
Meaning a famous person, especially in entertainment or sport:
Meaning a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun:
Meaning an extremely famous and successful performer or sports player:
Meaning a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches:
Meaning an important or distinguished person:
Meaning exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability:
Meaning a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question:
Meaning a person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere:
Meaning an imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size:
Meaning a celebrity:
Meaning a very famous person in the world of entertainment or sport:
Meaning a title or brief explanation accompanying an illustration, cartoon, or poster:
Meaning a thing inscribed, as on a monument or in a book:
Meaning the quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose:
Meaning a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals of an individual, family, or institution:
Meaning a motto associated with a political party or movement or other group:
Meaning a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment:
Meaning a title at the head of a page or section of a book:
Meaning the upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs:
Meaning a caption or credit in a film or broadcast:
Meaning the words used to express something; the way in which something is expressed:
Meaning captions displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translate or transcribe the dialogue or narrative:
Meaning a heading given to a subsection of a piece of writing:
Meaning a heading on a document:
Meaning a publisher's emblem or imprint, usually on the title page of a book:
Anagrams of legends
Words that rhyme with legends
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