different between legendary vs storied

English

Etymology

legend +? -ary; from Middle Latin legendarius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

Adjective

legendary (comparative more legendary, superlative most legendary)

1. Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
2. Appearing (solely) in legends.
3. Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
4. Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.

Translations

Noun

legendary (plural legendaries)

1. (obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
2. (obsolete) One who relates legends.
3. (Pokémon) A legendary Pokémon.

Anagrams

• enragedly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st???id/

Alternative forms

• storeyed (UK, sense 3)

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. much talked or written about
2. historical
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

3. (chiefly US) having multiple storeys; multistoried
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.

Verb

storied

1. simple past tense and past participle of story

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, steroid, tie rods, tierods, triodes