legend
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)legends
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or eventsSynonyms: fableType of storyKinds Arthurian legend
- brief description accompanying an illustrationSynonyms: captionType of titlePart of illustration
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Translations
Noun traditional story, legend
- Spanish
- leyenda
- French
- légende
- German
- Legende
- Italian
- leggenda
- Portuguese
- lenda
- Turkish
- efsane
- Russian
- леге́нда legénda
- Arabic
- أُسْطُورَة ʔusṭūra
- Chinese
- 传说 chuánshuō
- Japanese
- 伝説 densetsu
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- Dutch
- legende
- Polish
- legenda
- Swedish
- legend
- Greek
- θρύλος thrýlos
- Korean
- 전설 jeonseol
- Indonesian
- legenda
- Vietnamese
- truyền thuyết
- Hungarian
- legenda
- Portuguese (PT)
- lenda
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 傳說 chuánshuō
- Albanian
- legjendë
- Catalan
- llegenda
- Czech
- legenda
- Danish
- legende
- Esperanto
- legendo
- Finnish
- legenda
- Georgian
- ლეგენდა legenda
- Hebrew
- אַגָּדָה agadá
- Icelandic
- sögn
- Latvian
- leģenda
- Norwegian
- legende
- Romanian
- legendă
- Scottish Gaelic
- fionnsgeul
- Serbo-Croatian
- legenda
- Swahili
- hekaya
- Welsh
- chwedl
- Yiddish
- לעגענדע legende
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The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. legende, OF. legende, F. légende, LL. legenda, fr. L. legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr. λέγειν to gather, speak. Cf. Collect, Dialogue, Lesson, Logic.
1. 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.
2. A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. Joseph Addison
3. Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
And in this legend all that glorious deed Read, whilst you arm you.— Edward Fairfax
4. 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.
Golden legend. See under Golden.
To tell or narrate, as a legend. Bp. Joseph Hall
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54