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SAGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("saga" is a kind of...):
adventure story; heroic tale (a story of an adventure)