What is another word for legend?

Pronunciation: [lˈɛd͡ʒənd] (IPA)

Legend is a word used to describe someone or something that is well-known and famous for something they have achieved or done. Synonyms for this word include myth, fable, tale, story, epic, saga, and lore. A myth usually refers to a traditional story that explains historical events or natural phenomena. A fable is a moral tale that usually involves animals or birds as characters. A tale can refer to any story or narrative. An epic or saga is a long, heroic story that typically involves a hero or heroine and their quests. Lore refers to traditional knowledge or beliefs about a particular subject or place. These synonyms allow individuals to vary the way they describe a particular person or item, providing a richer linguistic landscape for expression.

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What are the hypernyms for Legend?

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Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
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Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.
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Usage examples for Legend

There is a legend that he once hurled his spear at the Nile when its floods rose too high, and was punished with ten years of blindness.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It is difficult to dismiss it as less than a legend which must have had some element of fact as its basis.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
It bore a card, with this legend: "From the Deep Harbor gang."
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Legend

  • Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
    Hervey Allen
  • Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
    Jean Arp
  • Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
    James A. Baldwin
  • We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
    Hugo Ball
  • Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
    Daniel Bell

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