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SAGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saga mean? 

SAGA (noun)
  The noun SAGA has 1 sense:

1. 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 accountplay

  Familiarity information: SAGA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAGA (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)


 Context examples 


When I opened my computer to set up the chart for the moon landing, my first words to the writer of this saga were wait, the date they chose to go to the moon was so perfect astrologically, it seemed like NASA had help from astrologers (but of course, this was unlikely!) In that case, I have to chalk this up to Divine intervention.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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