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legending

legending is the present participle and gerund of legend.

Meaning of legend

Verb

legend (third-person singular simple present legends, present participle legending, simple past and past participle legended)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To tell or narrate; to recount.
    • Nor ladie's wanton love , nor wand'ring knight,
      Legend I out in rymes all richly dight1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

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Questions about legending

What is legending the present participle and gerund of?
Legending is the present participle and gerund of legend.

Words near legending in the dictionary

  1. legendary Pokémon
  2. legende
  3. legended
  4. legendes
  5. legendic
  6. legending
  7. legendise
  8. legendised
  9. legendises
  10. legendising
  11. legendist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legending (page history and authors); legend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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