Synonyms for legend
ˈlɛdʒ əndleg·end

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1. legendnoun

   Synonyms:
   key, guide

2. legendnoun

   A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.

   The legend of Troy was discovered to have historical basis.

   Synonyms:
   myth

3. legendnoun

   A leading protagonist in a historical legend.

   Achilles is a legend in Greek culture.

   Synonyms:
   hero

4. legendnoun

   A person of extraordinary accomplishment.

   Michael Jordan stands as a legend in basketball.

   Synonyms:
   hero

5. legendnoun

   The text on a coin.

   Synonyms:
   inscription

6. legendnoun

   A worthy friend.

   Cheers mate for fixing my car: you're a legend.

   Synonyms:
   brick

7. legendnoun

   Synonyms:
   myth, tale

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. legend

   Fiction is now chiefly used of a prose work in narrative form in which the characters are partly or wholly imaginary, and which is designed to portray human life, with or without a practical lesson; a romance portrays what is picturesque or striking, as a mere fiction may not do; novel is a general name for any continuous fictitious narrative, especially a love-story; fiction and novel are used with little difference of meaning, except that novel characterizes a work in which the emotional element is especially prominent. The moral of the fable is expressed formally; the lesson of the fiction, if any, is inwrought. A fiction is studied; a myth grows up without intent. A legend may be true, but can not be historically verified; a myth has been received as true at some time, but is now known to be false. A fabrication is designed to deceive; it is a less odious word than falsehood, but is really stronger, as a falsehood may be a sudden unpremeditated statement, while a fabrication is a series of statements carefully studied and fitted together in order to deceive; the falsehood is all false; the fabrication may mingle the true with the false. A figment is something imaginary which the one who utters it may or may not believe to be true; we say, "That statement is a figment of his imagination." The story may be either true or false, and covers the various senses of all the words in the group. Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   allegory, apologue, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, figment, invention, myth, novel, romance, story

   Antonyms:
   certainty, fact, history, literalness, reality, truth, verity

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. legend

   Synonyms:
   myth, fable, marvellous story, fiction

   Antonyms:
   history, fact, actual occurrence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

1. legend, fablenoun

   a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

   Synonyms:
   allegory, fabrication, parable, caption, apologue, fiction, fable

2. caption, legendnoun

   brief description accompanying an illustration

   Synonyms:
   fable, caption, subtitle

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1. animesh

   animesh is the name of god shiv

   Submitted by anonymous on December 7, 2020  

2. roger federer

   an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field.

   roger federer is a living legend.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

3. saville

   the people born into this family are legends

   george was born a saville-a legend

   Submitted by anonymous on January 6, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. legendnoun

   Synonyms:
   fable, myth, fiction, doubtful narrative, fictitious story

2. legendnoun

   Synonyms:
   motto (round a coin or a medal)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. legendnoun

   Synonyms:
   fable, myth, posy, inscription, motto

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "legend":

   caption, legends, myth, legendary, callout, lore, captions, lenovo, lege, tale, headstamp, script

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1. Hepburn Ferrer:

   It is an unusual exhibition because it has been completely devoid of the Hollywood aspect of her career so it's the woman who is coming home, naked of the legend, of the icon, intimate Audrey.

2. Verdine White:

   My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep, while the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes.

3. Alan Rickman:

   ( Reuters) John said there would be leopards today, Teigen tweeted on Monday. But it's lepers. I uh, am not good with the Bible. Teigen posted the photos before visiting John Legend, singer John Legend, on the set of NBC's upcoming live version of the hit musical. Heading to Jesus Christ Superstar rehearsals ! Jesus flies today. I got ta see this, tweeted Teigen. The special also features rocker Alice Cooper as King Herod, Ben Daniels as Pontius Pilate and Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene. Cooperrecently spoke about his inspirationfor playing Herod, which he first played in a 1996 London production of the play. He revealed that his inspiration for the role comes from Alan Rickman's portrayal of Professor Snape in Harry Potter. When I first heard about it, I thought Alan Rickman — that condescending sort of arrogant character — and I kind of fashioned what I would do after what I thought Alan Rickman would do if Alan Rickman were alive.

4. Jim McKelvey:

   Jack Welch is a legend. He is one of my personal heros, and a super brilliant and nice guy.

5. Jerry Seinfeld:

   I remember I was in a cab one time and the cab driver said to me, ‘Why did you stop doing that show? It was very successful.' And I and I said to him, well, I was at a point we had done it for nine years and I realized I could go off the air right now and the show could be a legend. I could be a legend of the sitcom world or I could make some more money. I could risk that to make some more money. I said, what would you do? He said, 'I'd go for legend.' I said, Yeah, that's what I thought. So we went for a legend.