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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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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.