One popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable How to use legend in a sentence. Legend, traditional story or group of stories told about a particular person or place Formerly the term legend meant a tale about a saint. A very old story or set of stories from ancient times, or the stories, not always true, that… Legend, originally denoting a story concerning the life of a saint, is applied to any fictitious story, sometimes involving the supernatural, and usually concerned with a real person, place, or other subject
The legend of the holy grail. [countable, uncountable] a story from ancient times about people and events, that may or may not be true This type of story synonym myth The film is based on the legend of robin hood Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a god. There are 20 meanings listed in oed's entry for the noun legend, five of which are labelled obsolete
