adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
legendary
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/
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UK: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.dɹi/
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UK: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.də.ɹi/
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adj
Meaning 2
Appearing (solely) in legends.
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adj
Meaning 3
Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
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adj
Meaning 4
Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
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noun
Meaning 5
A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: legendarium
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noun
Meaning 6
One who relates legends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
A legendary Pokémon.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers
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adjective satellite
Meaning 9
celebrated in fable or legend
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox
- legendary exploits of Jesse James
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fabled
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أُسْطُورِيّ (ʔusṭūriyy) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Armenian: առասպելական (aṙaspelakan) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Asturian: llexendariu — of or pertaining to a legend
- Azerbaijani: əfsanəvi — of or pertaining to a legend
- Belarusian: легенда́рны (ljehjendárny) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Bulgarian: легендарен (legendaren) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Catalan: llegendari — of or pertaining to a legend
- Corsican: legendariu — of or pertaining to a legend
- Corsican: ligendariu — of or pertaining to a legend
- Czech: legendární — of or pertaining to a legend
- Danish: legendarisk — of or pertaining to a legend
- Dutch: legendarisch — of or pertaining to a legend
- Esperanto: legenda — of or pertaining to a legend
- Finnish: legendaarinen — of or pertaining to a legend
- French: légendaire — of or pertaining to a legend
- Friulian: lezendari — of or pertaining to a legend
- Galician: lendario — of or pertaining to a legend
- Georgian: ლეგენდარული (legendaruli) — of or pertaining to a legend
- German: legendär — of or pertaining to a legend
- Greek: θρυλικός (thrylikós) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Hindi: पौराणिक (paurāṇik) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Hungarian: legendás — of or pertaining to a legend
- Indonesian: legendaris — of or pertaining to a legend
- Irish: finscéalach — of or pertaining to a legend
- Italian: leggendario — of or pertaining to a legend
- Japanese: 伝説上の (densetsujō no) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Latin: fabularis — of or pertaining to a legend
- Latvian: leģendārs — of or pertaining to a legend
- Norwegian Bokmål: legendarisk — of or pertaining to a legend
- Norwegian Nynorsk: legendarisk — of or pertaining to a legend
- Persian: افسانوی (afsânavi) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Polish: legendarny — of or pertaining to a legend
- Portuguese: lendário — of or pertaining to a legend
- Portuguese: legendário — of or pertaining to a legend
- Portuguese: mítico — of or pertaining to a legend
- Romanian: legendar — of or pertaining to a legend
- Romanian: mitic — of or pertaining to a legend
- Russian: легенда́рный (legendárnyj) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Serbo-Croatian: lȅgendāran — of or pertaining to a legend
- Spanish: legendario — of or pertaining to a legend
- Swahili: -a kihekaya — of or pertaining to a legend
- Swedish: legendarisk — of or pertaining to a legend
- Tagalog: pang-alamat — of or pertaining to a legend
- Tagalog: maalamat — of or pertaining to a legend
- Turkish: efsanevi — of or pertaining to a legend
- Turkish: destansı — of or pertaining to a legend
- Ukrainian: легенда́рний (lehendárnyj) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Urdu: افسانوی (afsānvī) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Urdu: داستانی (dāstānsī) — of or pertaining to a legend
- Welsh: chwedlonol — of or pertaining to a legend
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