legendary

English

Etymology

legend +‎ -ary; from Middle Latin legendarius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

legendary (comparative more legendary, superlative most legendary)

1. Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
2. Appearing (solely) in legends.
3. Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
4. Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.

Translations

of or pertaining to a legend

• Arabic: أُسْطُورِيّ (ʔusṭūriyy)
• Azerbaijani: əfsanəvi
• Catalan: llegendari (ca)
• Dutch: legendarisch (nl)
• Esperanto: legenda (eo)
• Finnish: legendaarinen (fi)
• French: légendaire (fr)
• Galician: lendario m
• German: legendär (de)
• Greek: θρυλικός (el) (thrylikós)
• Hindi: पौराणिक (hi) (paurāṇik)
• Hungarian: legendás (hu)
• Latin: fabularis (la)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: legendarisk

  Nynorsk: legendarisk

• Polish: legendarny (pl)
• Portuguese: lendário (pt), legendário (pt), mítico (pt)
• Romanian: legendar (ro), mitic (ro)
• Russian: легенда́рный (ru) (legendárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: lȅgendāran (sh)
• Spanish: legendario
• Swahili: -a kihekaya
• Swedish: legendarisk (sv)
• Tagalog: pang-alamat, maalamat
• Turkish: efsanevi (tr)
• Welsh: chwedlonol (cy)

Noun

legendary (plural legendaries)

1. (obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
2. (obsolete) One who relates legends.
3. (Pokémon) A legendary Pokémon.

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