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Definition: Legend |
LegendNoun1. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events. 2. Brief description accompanying an illustration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "legend" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Legend \Leg"end\ (l[e^]j"[e^]nd or l[=e]"j[e^]nd), noun. [Old English legende, Old French legende, French l['e]gende, Late Latin legenda, from Latin legendus to be read, from legere to read, gather; akin to Greek le`gein to gather, speak. Compare to Collect, Dialogue, Lesson, Logic.]. (references) |
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Census | The part of a map that lists and explains the colors, symbols, line patterns, shadings, and annotations used on the map. Related terms: Reference map, Thematic map. (references) |
Literature | Legend means simply "something to be read" as part of the divine service. The narratives of the lives of saints and martyrs were so termed from their being read, especially at matins, and after dinner in the refectories. Exaggeration and a love for the wonderful so predominated in these readings, that the word came to signify the untrue, or rather, an event based on tradition. "A myth is a pure and absolute imagination; a legend has a basis of fact, but amplifies, a bridges, or modifies that basis at pleasure."- Rawlinson: Historic Evidences, lecture i. p. 231, note 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | An explanation of symbols used on a map, chart, sketch, etc., commonly printed in tabular form at the side of the map, etc. (references) |
Mining | A brief explanatory list of the symbols, cartographic units, patterns (shading and color hues), and other cartographic conventions appearing on a map, chart, or diagram. On a geologic map, it shows the sequence of rock units, the oldest at the bottom and the youngest at the top. The legend formerly included a textual inscription of, and the title on, the map orchart. Syn:key. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Text accompanying an illustration explaining the subject represented. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A listing that contains symbols and other information about a map. (references) |
| A listing that shows symbols and other information about a map. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Eat a Peach is a 1972 album by the United States rock music group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founder member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded.This double-disc set came close on the heels of their successful Live at the Fillmore East set and featured live tracks that did not make it on to that album, including "One Way Out" and an entire album side devoted to "Mountain Jam", a 33-minute improvisation based around Donovan's song "First There is a Mountain".
Much of the remainder of the album was recorded in-studio and served to cement the Brothers' reputation as innovative Southern rockers. Several tracks featured a new emphasis on more lyrical acoustic work, notably on "Melissa" and the guitar classic "Little Martha".
The widespread story regarding the origin of the album's title, that the truck involved in Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident was a peach truck, is not correct; the truck involved was actually a flatbed truck carrying logs. The name actually came from something Duane said in an interview shortly before he was killed; when asked what he was doing to help the anti-war effort, Duane replied, "There ain't no revolution, it's evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace." The album's name was originally slated to be The Kind We Grow in Dixie, and the art-work for the album showed a peach; band members were dissatisfied with the name, and the image suggested Duane's quote instead.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eat a Peach."
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A legend is a story, with important ontological consequences, passed by person to person.
A legend is a concept, an ideal or semi-true story with mythic qualities usually involving an heroic character or fantastic place and rooted in a kernel of truth; it is a meme that propagates through a culture.
Some legends we know today have their basis in historical fact. Before the invention of the printing press storytellers abounded, and typically would learn their stock in trade, their stories, from an older story teller, who might (or might not) have actually been there when the "story" was "history" bardic schools, oral history.
Examples:
A legend is different from a conspiracy and conspiracy theories in that the lynchpin of the latter two is usually a plausible, but unprovable secret agenda which exclusively drives the story.
- King Arthur and the Holy Grail
- El Dorado
- The Fountain of Youth
- Robin Hood
- Atlantis
Cosmology is usually myth.
See also:
- Bermuda Triangle
- Loch Ness monster
- mythology
- vampire
- urban legend
Legend is also the name of a 1984 fantasy novel by David Gemmell, his first novel featuring his character Druss the Legend.
Legend, a 1985 fantasy movie directed by Ridley Scott, tells of a young man (Tom Cruise) who must defeat the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry). It is unrelated to the aforementioned novel.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Legend."
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According to legend, Mount Taranaki - Te Maunga o Taranaki - is a mountain god that lived peacefully for many centuries in the centre of New Zealand's North Island with other mountain gods, Tongariro, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe.Nearby stood Mount Pihanga. Covered in a cloak of deep green forest she presented a stunning sight and all the mountain gods were supposedly in love with her.
Taranaki dared to make advances to Pihanga and was reproached by Tongariro, and a mighty battle ensued between them. The earth shook and the sky became dark as the mountains belched forth their anger.
When the battle ended, the lovely Pihanga stood close by Tongariro's side. Taranaki, wild with grief and jealously, angrily wrenched his roots from the ground and left the other mountains.
Weeping, he plunged towards the setting sun, gouging out a deep wide trench. When he reached the sea he turned north and stumbled up the coast. As he slept that night, the Pouakai Ranges trapped Taranaki in the place he now rests.
The next day, a stream of clear water sprang from Tongariro. It flowed down the deep scar Taranaki had left to form the Whanganui River.
There are those who say Taranaki is silently brooding and will one day try to return inland to again fight Tongariro.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mount Taranaki legend."
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Physiographic Regions of the lower 48 United States Courtesy of the USGS.There are eight distinct physiographic divisions within the contential U.S., though each is composed of yet smaller physiographic subdivisions. These major divisions are the:
The map below shows these divisions together with their subdivisions.
- Laurentian Highlands (areas labelled 1)
- Atlantic Plain (labelled 2 and 3)
- Appalachian Highlands (labelled 4-10)
- Interior Plains (labelled 11-13)
- Interior Highlands (labelled 14 and 15)
- Rocky Mountain System (labelled 16-19)
- Intermontane Plateaus (labelled 20-22)
- Pacific Mountain System (labelled 23-25)
US Physiographic Regions - USGS
Courtesy of USGS
External Links
- http://tapestry.usgs.gov
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Physiographic Regions of the United States."
Synonyms: LegendSynonyms: caption (n), fable (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals; (chronicle); saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana, trait. |
Record | Archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics; compte rendu; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's Debates; chronicle,annals, legend; history, biography; Congressional Records. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You're looking at a living legend, Lilly (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) Not a cop, an officer, a legend all over Hong Kong (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Pay attention and you will see how genius creates a legend. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Legend tells of a caped crusader, Batman, guardian of New Gotham, and his one, true love, Catwoman, the queen of the criminal underworld (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) They loom large in his legend. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) | |
Lyrics | 'Cause I knew that I was going to be a legend in my living room (Legend In My Living Room; performing artist: Len) Two weeks and you're an all time legend (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant) Your legend ever will (Candle In The Wind 1997; performing artist: Elton John) The Casanova legend must have been true ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Legend of Earl Durand (1974) Legend in Granite (1973) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) Behind the Legend (1972) | |
Song Titles | Legend Of A Mind (performing artist: The Moody Blues) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A petroglyph on Legend Rock in Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Credit: Unknown. |  | King on throne and praying priest under words "Melchior," La messe de minuit," and "A Christmas Legend. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The legend of Salem: "The Rev. George Burroughs was accused of witchcraft on the evidence of feats of strength, tried, hung, and buried beneath the gallows". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Legend on regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Nora Kaye, in Fall River Legend. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The story of the scarlet letter grew into a legend. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette was ignorant of the transporting legend, (r)I love thee a little, passionately, etc. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The class must be doing the themes or perhaps Father Arnall was reading a legend out of the book |
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Business | Microsoft’s set-top box, Venus, is being produced by Legend, Haier, Stone, TCL, Beijing Jin Yuxing, and Shanghai Guangdian (SVA). (references) | |
Legend Computer and its spinoff Digital China have been active with foreign firms in the Electronic Commerce China Forum, a business group addressing shared policy concerns and industry issues. (references) | ||
Presently, TCL, HiSense, Legend, and TianJin ZhongHuan Electronics Computer Corporation, Guangdong Zhongwang Corporation, Shanghai Yihao Company is planning to cooperate with CASS Company to manufacture these products. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Egypt | On June 18, the Court of Appeals rejected an Islamist lawyer's suit against the Sheikh of al-Azhar and several other senior Islamic figures in their effort to block publication of the book "My Father Adam: The Story of the Creation Between Legend and Reality," by Abdel Sabour Shahine. (references) |
Economic History | China | Legend Group is the leader in China's computer market with 37.88% of market share. (references) |
Japan | Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Legend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Legend" is used about 1,245 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.92% | 1,244 | 6,293 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,245 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Century Legend (Holdings) Ltd |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "legend": arthurian legend ♦ Golden legend ♦ legend of saints ♦ narrative legend ♦ urban legend. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "legend": legend-full. | |
Ending with "legend": euro-legend, folk-legend, grail-legend, minor-legend, monster-legend, ramsey-legend, theseus-legend. | |
| 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 "legend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | legende. (various references) | |
Albanian | legjendë e hartës, legjendë (byword, fable), mbishkrim në monedha, gojëdhënë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقش على العملة, عنوان تفسيرى, خرافة (fable, myth, story, superstition), إسطورة, شخص يلهم الأساطير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надпис (epigraph, heading, inscription, label, lettering, notice, scripture, superscription, title), житие, легенда (fable, key, mintage, story), басня (fable, invention). (various references) | |
Chinese | 奇 (legendary), 傳說 (it is said, they say, tradition). (various references) | |
Czech | legenda (caption, clue, key), skazka, povìst (fame, name, report, reputation, repute, rumor, rumour, story), nápis (inscription, lettering), epigraf (epigraph). (various references) | |
Danish | undertekst (caption, cutline, subtitle). (various references) | |
Dutch | volksoverlevering, legende. (various references) | |
Esperanto | legendo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | søgn, halgisøga. (various references) | |
Farsi | فهرست (Catalog, Catalogue, Concordance, Phraseology, Registry, Repertory, Roll, Roster, Schedule, Table), نقش (Figure, Impress, Infraction, Inscription, Stamp), نوشته روی سکه ومدال , علاءم واختصارات , افسانه (Fable, Fiction, Myth, Romance, Tale), شرح (Circumstance, Description, Explanation, Exposition, Geography, Gloss, Innuendo, Narrative, Recitation, Relation, Sketch, Statement, Story, Tale, Treatise). (various references) | |
Finnish | legenda, taru (myth, saga), selitys (comment, explanation, key legend, statement), pyhimystaru, muinaistaru (ancient tradition), kuvateksti (caption, cutline). (various references) | |
French | légende. (various references) | |
Frisian | leginde. (various references) | |
German | Legende (caption, cutline, underline). (various references) | |
Greek | μύθοσ (fable, fiction, myth, tale), υπόμνημα (memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, note, petition), επεξήγημα (caption, cutline), λεζάντα (caption), θρύλοσ (rumor, rumour), θρύλος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'"" (fable, fairy tale, myth, story, yarn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rege (tale), monda (myth, mythology, saga), legenda (fable), jelmagyarázat (key, notation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dongeng (fairy tale, nonsense). (various references) | |
Italian | leggenda (fable, signs and symbols), didascalia (caption). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賛 (caption), 言い伝え (tradition), 物語 (story, tale), 物語 (story, tale), 神話 (myth), "話 (folklore), 伝説 (folklore, tradition), 伝説 (folklore, tradition), 伝承 (folklore, hand down, tradition, transmission), 伝え話 , 伝え (tradition), 伝 (biography, comment, communication, connections, good offices, intermediary, life, someone to trust, tradition), 古伝 (tradition), 口碑 (folklore, oral tradition). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"わ (fellowship, friendship, myth), さ" (a style of Chinese poetry, acid, caption, cut down, legend or inscription on a picture, three), で"しょう (folklore, hand down, tradition, transmission), で"せつ (folklore, tradition), つたえばなし, つたえ (tradition), いいつたえ (tradition), "うひ (construction cost, empress, folklore, oral tradition, public expenditure, queen, your valued criticism), "で" (tradition), むかしばなし (folklore), ものがたり (story, tale), て" (biography, celebration, ceremony, comment, communication, cultivated rice field, dot, establishment, heaven, law code, life, mark, point, shop, sky, spot, store, tradition). (various references) | |
Korean | 설 (legendary). (various references) | |
Manx | shenn-skeeal (old chestnut, old chestnut story), screeuyn (brief, chitty, document, epistle, inscription, letter, lettering, missive, note, notes, script). (various references) | |
Norwegian | legende, sagn. (various references) | |
Papiamen | leyenda. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egendlay.(various references) | |
Polish | legenda. (various references) | |
Portuguese | legenda (cation, label, lawmaker, mot, motto, reading, superscription), lenda (fairy tale). (various references) | |
Romanian | legendå, legendã (caption, fable, inscription, myth, story, tradition), mit (fable, myth, story, tabby), inscripţie (inscription, label, writing), fabulã (fable, fiction). (various references) | |
Russian | легенда. (various references) | |
Scottish | seann-sgeul (old tale). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | legenda (key), natpis (caption, inscription, scripture, sign, superscript, superscription). (various references) | |
Spanish | leyenda (caption, lettering, tale). (various references) | |
Swedish | sägen (myth, story, tale, tradition), legend (fable), saga (fable, fairy tale, fairy-tale, myth, saga, tale). (various references) | |
Thai | บุคคลที่มีชื่อเสียง (anybody, notable), ตำนาน (mythology), คำบรรยายใต้ าพ, คำจารึก. (various references) | |
Turkish | yazıt (epigraph, inscription, scripture, tablet), mit (myth, mythos), kitabe (epigraph, epitaph, inscription, panel, tablet, writing), efsane (fable, myth, saga, story, tale). (various references) | |
Turkmen | rowaяat. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | легенда (banderol). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | truyện cổ tích. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | legenda. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "legend": legendarily, legendary, legendries, legendry, legends. (additional references) | |
Words containing "legend": semilegendary. (additional references) | |
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"Legend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldegond, egend, Keegand, lagen, leagen, Lebena, ledgend, leemd, legan, legand, legant, legen, legenda, legende, legened, legeng, legent, Legentil, leggerd, lengend, Letgen, Lewendon, lexen, leyend, liegen, ligen, lugen, luggen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "legend" (pronounced le"jund) |
| 4 | -j u n d | bludgeoned, burgeoned, engined, imagined, margined. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, brightened, broadened, burdened, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l-n" | |
-1 letter: glede, gleed, ledge. | |
-2 letters: dele, dene, edge, geed, geld, gene, gled, glee, glen, lend, need. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, den, eel, eld, end, eng, ged, gee, gel, gen, led, lee, leg, nee. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, en, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l-n" | |
+1 letter: angeled, deleing, gentled, gleaned, legends. | |
+2 letters: belonged, bleeding, danegeld, deleting, develing, eloigned, engilded, engirdle, englobed, engulfed, enlarged, fenagled, goldener, legendry, lingered, needling, reedling, seedling, wedeling. | |
+3 letters: bemingled, bleedings, ceilinged, congealed, danegelds, defleaing, deleading, deleaving, depleting, dieseling, diligence, elongated, engirdled, engirdles, englished, englutted, engrailed, ensilaged, entangled, euglenoid, gantleted, gladdened, glandered, glistened, goldenest, goldeneye, guideline, inveigled, kentledge, knowledge, legendary, lightened, lodgement, magdalene, needlings, neglected, realigned, reedlings, relending, replunged, rewelding, ridgeline, seedlings, tweedling, unfledged, wheedling. | |
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