Legend

Noun

 * 1) A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.  Also historical legend.
 * 2) A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
 * 3) A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
 * 4) Any person of extraordinary accomplishment.
 * 5) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
 * 6) The text on a coin.
 * 7) A fabricated backstory for spies, complete with appropriate documents and records.
 * 8)   A worthy friend.

Adjectives for Legend
fearful; golden; traditionary; fanciful; facile; splenetic; heroic; marvelous; primeval; shadowy; serviceable; diffused; epic; fading; picturesque; contemporary; medieval; confusing; profane; puissant; fictitious: interminable; conventional.

Verbs for Legend
blast—; carry on—; confute—; demolish—; destroy—; detach from—; discard—; dispel—; dispose of—; embroider—; emerge from—; exploit—; extenuate—; interpolate—; lampoon—; perpetuate—; peruse—; —attests to; —grows from; —persists; —portrays.

Thesaurus
fairy tale, fairyism, fantasy, fiction, folk motif, folk story, folklore, folktale, fortunes, general reference map, gest, ghost story, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grid line, hachure, hagiography, hagiology, hanger, head, heading, headline, heliographic chart, heroic legend, historiography, history, horse opera, hydrographic chart, immemorial usage, immortal name, immortality, index, inscription, isoline, journal, jump head, key, latitude, layer tint, life, life and letters, life story, longitude, lore, love story, luminary, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, memory, meridian, motto, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythology, mythos, narrative, necrology, nursery tale, obituary, overline, parable, parallel, personage, phenomenon, photobiography, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, political map, polyconic projection, profile, projection, racial memory, record, relief map, remembrance, representative fraction, resume, road map, romance, rubric, running head, running title, saga, scale, scarehead, science fiction, screamer, shocker, sinusoidal projection, slogan, somebody, space fiction, space opera, special map, spread, spreadhead, story, streamer, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, suspense story, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, theory of history, thriller, title, title page, topographer, topographic chart, topography, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, transportation map, undying fame, weather chart, weather map, whodunit, wonder, work of fiction, Clio, Lambert conformal projection, Marchen, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Mishnah, Muse of history, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, adventures, aeronautical chart, allegory, ancient wisdom, annals, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, astronomical chart, atlas, autobiography, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, banner, banner head, bedtime story, biographical sketch, biography, caption, cartographer, cartography, case history, celebrity, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, chorography, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, climatic chart, code, common law, confessions, conic projection, contour line, contour map, curriculum vitae, custom, cylindrical projection, detective story, diary, drop head, dropline, epic, epigraph, experiences, fable, fabliau, fairy lore,

Etymology
< legende: <  legende: <  legenda:, neuter plural of the future past participle of legere:.

Synonyms

 * key (5)
 * guide (5)
 * myth (1, 2)
 * hero (3, 4)
 * tall tale (2)
 * inscription (6)

Derived terms

 * campus legend
 * legend in one’s own mind
 * legend in one’s own time
 * urban legend

Related terms

 * lege
 * legendary

Translations

 * Catalan: llegenda
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אגדה
 * Japanese: 伝説 (でんせつ, densetsu)


 * Latin: fabula
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: legendă,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fionnsgeul
 * Serbian: gatka, kaža
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: efsane
 * Uzbek: afsona


 * Catalan: llegenda
 * Croatian:
 * Greek:


 * Polish:
 * Turkish: efsane,


 * Catalan: llegenda
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 凡例


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: legenda
 * Turkish: lejant

Anagrams

 * gelden, gleden, legden

Verb
legend