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[ adjective ] so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend

Examples

"the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

It is a lonely , rather desolate region , but full of legendary and historic associations .

Some of the earlier episodes have touches of the supernatural , as suited to the legendary background .

(Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a_few years earlier , he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure .

Related terms

known

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[ adjective ] celebrated in fable or legend

Synonyms

fabled

Examples

"the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox" "legendary exploits of Jesse James"

Related terms

unreal

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