Fantasy and Legend

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Fantasy noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.

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Legend is a synonym for fantasy in story topic. In some cases you can use "Legend" instead a noun "Fantasy", when it comes to topics like myth.

Legend noun - A traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature.

Usage example: some ancient civilizations had legends about spirits that inhabited trees and rocks

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Fantasy is a synonym for legend in story topic. You can use "Fantasy" instead a noun "Legend", if it concerns topics such as folklore.

Nearby Word: legendary

human	human fantasy	human legend
similar	similar fantasy	similar legend
common	common fantasy	common legend
complete	complete fantasy	complete legend
Other adjectives: original, many, single, medieval, romantic, popular, actual, famous, personal, new, traditional, classic, greatest, modern, historical.

See, monsters out of fantasy and legend have recently started appearing on the previously-mundane Earth, and as a result supernaturally gifted people have arisen to fight them.

Source: Webcomic / Use Sword on Monster
Once Upon a Time is Now.Take just about every well-known Fairy Tale, myth, legend, oral history, and fantasy story known to man.

Source: Series / The 10th Kingdom
If you went to Poland about 1992 or so and asked a random gamer about Metroid, Final Fantasy or Legend of Zelda, he'd stare at you blankly, then ask what computer were they released on.

Source: Pop-Culture Isolation

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