Legend vs. Icon

Legendnoun

A unrealistic story depicting past events.

Legendnoun

A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.

Legendnoun

A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.

Legendnoun

A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.

Legendnoun

A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records; a cover story.

Legendnoun

A person related to a legend or legends.

Legendnoun

A leading protagonist in a historical legend.

Legendnoun

A person with legend-like qualities, such as extraordinary accomplishment.

Legendnoun

A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.

Legendnoun

An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.

Legendverb

To tell or narrate; to recount.

Legendnoun

That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.

Legendnoun

A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.

Legendnoun

Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.

Legendnoun

An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.

Legendverb

To tell or narrate, as a legend.

Legendnoun

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

Legendnoun

brief description accompanying an illustration

Legend

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude.

Iconnoun

An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

Iconnoun

A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.

Iconnoun

A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.

Iconnoun

(computing) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)

Iconnoun

(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.

Iconnoun

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Iconnoun

A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Iconnoun

a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.

Iconnoun

a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.

Iconnoun

any object of uncritical devotion.

Iconnoun

an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.

Iconnoun

(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

Iconnoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Iconnoun

a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

Iconnoun

a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.

Iconnoun

a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration

Iconnoun

a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window.

Iconnoun

a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.

Icon

An icon (from the Greek εἰκών eikṓn 'image, resemblance') is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks; .