legendary

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legendary - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\ (l[e^]j"[e^]n*d[asl]*r[y^]), a.
     Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of
     legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." --Bp.
     Lloyd.
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           Legendary stories of nurses and old women. --Bourne.
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  Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\, n. [Cf. OF. legendaire, LL.
     legendarius.]
     1. A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
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              Read the Countess of Pembroke's "Arcadia," a gallant
              legendary full of pleasurable accidents. --James I.
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     2. One who relates legends. --Bp. Lavington.
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legendary - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  legendary
      adj 1: so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a
             legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic
             trailblazers"
      2: celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and
         his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James" [syn:
         fabled, legendary]

legendary - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "legendary":
     acclaimed, acknowledged, admitted, allegoric, autobiographical,
     biographical, celebrated, chronologic, concocted, conventional,
     cooked-up, customary, distinguished, eminent, epic, established,
     exceptional, extraordinary, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, famed,
     famous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far-famed,
     far-heard, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, fixed, folk,
     forged, great, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, hatched,
     heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, honored,
     illustrious, imaginary, immemorial, immortal, indescribable,
     ineffable, invented, inveterate, long-established, long-standing,
     made-up, make-believe, manufactured, marked, martyrologic,
     marvelous, much acclaimed, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified,
     mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, notable, noted,
     noteworthy, notorious, of long standing, of mark, of note,
     of the folk, oral, parabolic, phenomenal, popular, portentous,
     prescriptive, prodigious, prominent, put-up, received, recognized,
     remarkable, renowned, romantic, romanticized, rooted, storied,
     stupefying, stupendous, talked-about, talked-of, time-honored,
     traditional, tried and true, true-blue, trumped-up, understood,
     unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unwritten,
     venerable, well-known, wonderful, worshipful