legendaryadjective
uk/ˈledʒ.ən.dri/us/ˈledʒ.der.i/legendary adjective (FAMOUS)
C1 very famous and admired or spoken about:
He became editor of the legendary Irish journal "The Bell".
The English are legendary (= well known) for their incompetence with languages.
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- His drinking was legendary.
- His son was the legendary trumpeter, Miles Davis.
- Their parties were legendary for their lavishness.
- All the obituaries mentioned his legendary rudeness.
- He worked for the legendary Ball brothers.
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Fame and famous
- A-list
- acclaim
- anyone
- anyone who is/was anyone idiom
- B-list
- fore
- high-profile
- hit the headlines idiom
- household word
- illustrious
- immortal
- plaque
- prominent
- proverbial
- put sth/sb on the map idiom
- renown
- reputed
- rise to fame idiom
- sb's/sth's claim to fame idiom
- steal
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legendary adjective (FROM A STORY)
C1 from a legend:
a legendary Greek hero
Was King Arthur a real or a legendary character?
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True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal
- fairy tale
- faithful
- false
- falsely
- fictional
- glitter
- gritty
- nominal
- pretend
- proper
- properly
- properly speaking idiom
- pukka
- realistic
- well founded
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