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Plural of legend

regular plural

The plural of legend is legends.

Forms of legend

Singularlegend /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənd/
Plurallegends
Countablecountable and uncountable

Legends in a sentence

  • As a child she had nothing to read but the legends of early Christian martyrs.
  • The 1984 Rose Bowl prank has spawned many legends. Here's the real story.
  • There would always be legends about how their ghosts would haunt the mines.2025 October 31, Wendigoon, “Journal of a Coal Miner’s Daughter”, in CreepCast. From the entry coal country
  • She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends.2020, Shona Husk, Close to the Truth, HarperCollins Australia, →ISBN. From the entry pterosaur
  • "Telempathy is a skill that so far exists only in legends and rumors," Sue says.2013, C[ynthia] J[aynes] Omololu, Intuition, New York, N.Y. […]: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry telempathy

Meaning of legend

  1. noun The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend).
  2. noun A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
  3. noun A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.

Full definition of legend

Questions about the plural of legend

What is the plural of legend?
The plural of legend is legends.
Is legend countable?
Legend is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: legend (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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