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    What is a Legend?

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    leg·end/?lej?nd/
    Noun:
    A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
    Adjective:
    Very well known: "his speed was legend".
    Synonyms:
    fable - story - tale - inscription - myth
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    Darci13

    By the way there are a lot who are a legend in their own mind.

    A story that has been passed down verbally for generations, especially one that is presented as history but is unlikely to be true


     

    someone seriously awesome

    legend |?lej?nd|
    noun
    1 a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated : the legend of King Arthur | according to legend he banished all the snakes from Ireland.
    2 an extremely famous or notorious person, esp. in a particular field : the man was a living legend | a Wall Street legend.
    3 an inscription, esp. on a coin or medal.
    • a caption : a picture of a tiger with the legend “Go ahead, make my day.”
    • the wording on a map or diagram explaining the symbols used : see legend under Fig. 1.
    4 historical the story of a saint's life : the mosaics illustrate the legends of the saints.
    adjective
    very well known : his speed and ferocity in attack were legend.
    ORIGIN Middle English (sense 4) : from Old French legende, from medieval Latin legenda ‘things to be read,’ from Latin legere ‘read.’ Sense 1 dates from the early 17th cent.



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