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legend ['ledʒәnd]

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legend

[ noun ]

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

<noun.communication>

brief description accompanying an illustration

<noun.communication>

Legend \Leg"end\ (l[e^]j"[e^]nd or l[=e]"j[e^]nd; 277), n. [OE.
legende, OF. legende, F. l['e]gende, LL. legenda, fr. L.
legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr.
le`gein 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. --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. --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}.

Legend \Leg"end\, v. t.
To tell or narrate, as a legend. --Bp. Hall.

An artist working with film director Oliver Stone painted the fake pictographs for a scene in "The Doors," an upcoming movie about rock legend Jim Morrison.
The panel's board of directors includes former Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, golf legend Byron Nelson and Dallas Mavericks general manager Norm Sonju.
According to the legend, Midas, son of King Gordius, was a spendthrift who begged the gods for the power to turn anything he touched to gold.
The aquatics and cinema legend, now 60, came to San Antonio for a midnight swim and a peek at how her idea for a barefoot beauty stroll works.
The devil doesn't get his due in "Temptation," Vaclav Havel's reworking of the Faust legend, but then neither does the audience.
Hirohito had renounced his divine status after the war, but Akihito becomes the first of Japan's 125 emperors, including those listed only in legend, to take the throne as a mere mortal and not a priest-king.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi issued a statement mourning the death, calling Kapoor, "a person who became a legend in his lifetime." There was no immediate word of funeral arrangements.
When plans were drawn up for an aluminum smelter, which has yet to be built, he inserted a map with a legend that includes: "Huldufolk Dwellings, Other Spirits, Odd Shapes in the Stone."
When Dorn landed the role in May 1987, he knew he and the rest of the cast would have to live up to the legend of the first "Star Trek" series.
He brings to it now a grandeur of scale - the Wells stage is far, far too small for him - and a bravura which are the stuff of legend.
The company, which is owned by Les Arts Mecaniques S.A., of St. Croix, Switzerland, is something of a legend in harpdom.
But that has not erased his legend, inscribed in graffiti on the walls of the camp.
They give me the opportunity to bust my hump." At 42, with his graying mustache and ever-present bandanna atop his head, Mr. Orum has become a legend, with a reputation for hard work and for standing by his friends.
The breakneck speed at which Benetton became the McDonald's of knitwear is already a retailing legend.
"I think people want to see the legend.
But I think a legend is another way of writing history." "Chicanos," a 30-week series of government television programs, is showing Mexican-Americans in a new light in Mexico.
This week, he cited Mr Bush's presumed involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, in the pre-war tilt to Saddam Hussein and in the savings and loans debacle. Next, there is the question of the carefully fostered Perot legend.
"People will not be able to stand it." Rush-hour traffic in Bangkok has become the stuff of legend.
"He was really a legend within the electronics industry," spokesman Jim Jarrett said from Intel's Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters.
A 1911 report by government ethnologists recounts the legend of the pole: The son of an Omaha chief was hunting alone in the forest when elders were in council to devise ways of keeping the tribe together.
Antonio Carlos de Oliveira of the ecology group Oikos said: "He is superimportant, a legend.
I'm not in favor," Menem said in Rome this month during a Western European tour aimed at diminishing the "black legend" of Peronism as a party that tolerates violence and authoritarianism.
It was here that Johannes Badrutt, owner of the Kulm Hotel, made his famous wager - or so legend tells us - which started the British habit of holidaying in the mountains in the winter.
The screen legend died of breast cancer at the American Hospital in Paris.
Today, little remains of the Wagons-Lits legend but the evocative art-nouveau travel posters, some lovingly restored art-deco dining rooms and a sprinkling of turn-of-the-century red-velvet furniture in the company's offices here.
Hardly the stuff of enduring legend.
Garland burst into giggles on the set and delayed the shoot. Fleming, as the legend goes, took Garland behind one of the trees and slapped her.
It goes on for six parts, just like any old legend from France or Hungary, only more outspoken. If you go for legends, Radio 3 on Tuesday gave a new version of Dante's Inferno.
They also ended the fight with Mrs. Onassis last week when she agreed to give them a larger piece of land and $100,000 in exchange for their shares of a tiny beachfront site on Martha's Vineyard that figures in tribal legend.
When television came to Brazil in the 1960s, Barbosa became a legend with a amateur show called "Chacrinha's Horn." His nonsense slogans and silly rhymes caught on throughout the country.

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