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Definition: Legendary |
LegendaryAdjective1. So celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers". 2. Celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "legendary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: LegendarySynonym: fabled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Adjective: descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic, storied; described; Verb: |
Imagination | Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Legendary |
| English words defined with "legendary": Arthur ♦ Beowulf, Berserker, Bunyan, Burk, Burke ♦ Calamity Jane ♦ Don Juan, dwarf ♦ Enkidu, Excalibur ♦ Father Christmas ♦ Gestic, Gestour, Gilgamesh, Gilgamish, gnome, Gordius ♦ Hickock, historical ♦ James Butler Hickock ♦ King Arthur, King Cole, Knights of the Round Table, Kriss Kringle ♦ Little John ♦ Martha Jane Burk, Martha Jane Burke ♦ Ossianic ♦ Paul Bunyan, Phoenix ♦ Robin Hood, round table ♦ Saint Nick, Santa Claus, Siege Perilous, St Nick ♦ Wandering Jew, Wild Bill Hickock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "legendary": 6.001 ♦ AOL, AOL! ♦ Drachenfels ♦ Freischütz ♦ Gethsemane, Guendol"na, Guiderius ♦ Kumara ♦ Nala ♦ Pururavas and Urvasi ♦ Raghu. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "legendary": Turanian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ah ha. Legendary Sharps (Quigley Down Under; writing credit: John Hill) This ship is legendary. Even in my culture, it was thought invincible (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) Does this man look like the legendary gunman Vash the Stampede (Toraigan; writing credit: Yôsuke Kuroda) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Legendary Champions (1968) The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Anglobilly Feverson (2002) Legendary Lickers #7 (2000) The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The phantom ship from legendary ballads by Thomas Moore, arranged for one or three voices by Henry R. Bishop / lith. of Endicott, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Iraq | Known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, the region is the legendary locale of the Garden of Eden. (references) |
Solomon Islands | The European discoverer of the Solomons was the Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana Y Neyra, who set out from Peru in 1567 to seek the legendary Isles of Solomon. (references) | |
Turkey | The legendary Mustafa Kemal, a Turkish World War I hero later known as "Ataturk" or "father of the Turks," founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 after the collapse of the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire. (references) | |
Political Economy | Uruguay | It also supports retaining state enterprises and weakening the country's legendary bank secrecy laws. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Legendary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.21% of the time. "Legendary" is used about 376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.21% | 358 | 15,045 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.66% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.13% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "legendary": legendary creature. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "legendary": semi-legendary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "legendary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | legjendar (fabled, fabulous), përmbledhje e legjendave. (various references) | |
Arabic | خرافي (fabled, fabulous, fictitious, mythical, mythological, superstitious), أسطوري (mythic, mythical, mythological). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сбирка от легенди, чутовен, легендарен (fabled, fabulous, mythical, storied), приказен (fabled, fabulous, fairy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 奇 (legend). (various references) | |
Czech | legendární (fabled). (various references) | |
Dutch | legendarisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | legenda, laŭlegenda. (various references) | |
Faeroese | søgusveiptur. (various references) | |
Farsi | افسانه ای (Incredible). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarunomainen (mythical). (various references) | |
French | légendaire. (various references) | |
German | sagenhaft (fabled, fabulous, fabulously, fantastic, gorgeous, phenomenal, sensational, sensationally, terrific, unbelievable, unbelievably). (various references) | |
Greek | συναξάρι, μυθώδησ (fabulous, mythic, mythical), μυθικόσ (mythic, mythical), μυθικός, θρυλικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'"י (fabled, fabulous, mythical), א'"תי, "'"י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mondai (mythical), mesebeli (fabled), legendás (fabled, fabulous), mondabeli (mythological), legendagyűjtemény. (various references) | |
Italian | leggendario, mitico (mythic, mythical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 伝奇的 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | で"きてき. (various references) | |
Korean | 설 (legend). (various references) | |
Manx | skeealagh (anecdotal, communicatory, newsy), shenn-skeealagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | legendarisk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egendarylay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lendário (mythical, mythological, storied), legendário, fabuloso (fabulous, mythical, mythological). (various references) | |
Romanian | legendar (mythic, mythical, storied). (various references) | |
Russian | сборник легенд, легендарный (fabled, fabulous, storied). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | legendaran, knjiga legendi. (various references) | |
Spanish | legendario (fabled). (various references) | |
Swedish | legendariska, legendarisk (proverbial), legend-, sagoomspunnen, sägenomspunnen (storied). (various references) | |
Turkish | efsanevi (cyclic, cyclical, fabled, larger than life, mythic, mythical), dillere destan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | легендарний (fabled, fabulous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tập truyện cổ tích. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "legendary": semilegendary. (additional references) | |
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"Legendary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: legenda, Legrendre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "legendary" (pronounced le"junde'rē) |
| 9 | l e" j u n d e' r ē | semilegendary. |
| 6 | -u n d e' r ē | secondary. |
| 4 | -d e' r ē | lapidary, dromedary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, diversionary, Dogberry, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secretary, sedentary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: enlarged, legendry. | |
-2 letters: angeled, angered, angerly, dangler, deanery, delayer, derange, eagerly, enlarge, enraged, general, gleaned, gleaner, gnarled, grandee, grandly, greenly, grenade, lagered, layered, learned, regaled, relayed, yearend, yearned. | |
-3 letters: adenyl, agedly, agreed, aneled, anergy, angled, angler, argled, argyle, danger, dangle, darnel, dealer, dearly, denary, dragee, earned, endear, energy, enrage, galere, gander, garden, geared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-r-y" | |
+2 letters: endearingly, legendarily. | |
+3 letters: decreasingly, degenerately, glycerinated. | |
+4 letters: deprecatingly, nearsightedly, semilegendary, wrongheadedly. | |
+5 letters: adrenergically, depreciatingly, heartrendingly. | |
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