<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.</li><li>the body of stories of this kind, especially as they relate to a particular people, group, or clan: the winning of the West in American legend.</li><li>an inscription, especially on a coat of arms, on a monument, under a picture, or the like.</li><li>a table on a map, chart, or the like, listing and explaining the symbols used.</li><li>Numismatics. inscription.</li><li>a collection of stories about an admirable person.</li><li>a person who is the center of such stories: She became a legend in her own lifetime.</li><li>Archaic. a story of the life of a saint, especially one stressing the miraculous or unrecorded deeds of the saint.</li><li>Obsolete. a collection of such stories or stories like them.</li></ul>