legendary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
legendary/ˈleʤəndri/
▶adjective
- 1 described in or based on legends.
- 2 remarkable enough to be famous.
– derivatives
legendarily adverb.
legendarily adverb.
– origin C16 (as n. denoting a collection of saints' lives): from med. L. legendarius, from legenda (see legend).
'legendary' also found in these Oxford entries:
adamant
- Amazon
- Arthurian
- Atlantean
- Aztec
- calamine
- Camelot
- Don Juan
- epic
- Fata Morgana
- Fenian
- gnome
- Gordian knot
- harlequin
- hermetic
- lotus
- Merovingian
- Minoan
- Orphic
- Pied Piper
- Rosicrucian
- sea serpent
- storiated
- wandering Jew

