noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Apples crop up everywhere from the dinner table to our most ancient myths and legends .
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Sometimes nature is just as strange as ancient legends .
arthurian
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It is said that the Wizard of Arthurian legend was born here.
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Pentecost is also the high feast of the Arthurian Grail legends .
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Could Castle Dore even challenge Tintagel as being at the root of the Arthurian legends ?
living
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Many of parking's living legends were there.
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A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.
local
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She found that local legends and place names corresponded accurately with the particular sector of the zodiac where they were found.
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She wants to discover more about the history and local legends of Melsonby.
old
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A horror descends upon the project; an old legend comes back to do the work of the innovators.
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We've all put the Worm down to a dusty old legend .
■ VERB
accord
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That city had, according to legend , been destroyed in ancient times by fire from heaven.
bear
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The sign bore the chilling legend Temporary Mortuary.
become
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Jean Cocteau said that history is facts which become lies and that legends are lies which become history.
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His stories about that night became legend .
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His laziness became a legend in the corridors of power.
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He had become a figure of legend .
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What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity.
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In time, Chagnon became a legend of ferocity in the Amazon.
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He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved.
describe
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B, the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as described in Fig. 1 legend , but no further treatment was applied.
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Sugar conformations and glycosidic rotation angles have been estimated as described in the legend to Table 1.
live
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Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona, lasted a minute, and has lived in legend since 1881.
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Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.
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He was really living the rock star legend to the ninth degree.
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Their names will live in legend .
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living legend
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one of the living legends of rhythm and blues
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A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.
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Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.
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Many of parking's living legends were there.
rumour/legend/word has it
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After all, stranger things have happened: legend has it that the hooked burrs of plants inspired the invention of Velcro.
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And rumour has it that the big-name band will be outrageous rockers Guns N' Roses.
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But word has it that the Tucson Symphony is taking over the building sometime in mid-December.
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His name is cited in the four gospels. Legend has it that he obtained the holy grail from the last supper.
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It started with a cross placed along the railroad tracks, where legend has it that he was lynched.
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Pass the spliff, mon. Word has it the band is compelling as hell in person.
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This was initiated, so legend has it, when the lavatories were out of order.
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Turn right to the Cerne Giant viewing point. Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals.
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Legend has it that Sarah Heln, who died in 1913, was shut alive inside a lead coffin.
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According to legend , the whole castle was washed into the sea.
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Among Mexican music fans, Fernandez is a legend .
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Michael Jordan is a living legend of basketball.
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The Legend of Prince Valiant
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the legend of Robin Hood
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the rock and roll legend Elvis Presley
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According to the legend , Bodhidharma fell asleep in the course of an extremely long meditation.
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Details of wounding are given in the legend to Table 1.
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His stories about that night became legend .
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Joey, a legend among motor-cycling fans in Ulster, has always been a man of the people.
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Khan had topped the field for ten years and was a legend in his sport.
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The guy is a legend around the plant.
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The media could not resist the combination of pop meeting sporting legend .
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To kick off the event, he invited fitness legend Jack LaLanne to cavort with the models.