Definition of saga Saga

/sɑˈgʌ/ - [sagu] - sa•ga

We found 9 definitions of saga from 6 different sources.

What does saga mean?

WordNet

Noun

Plural: sagas

saga - 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

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Wiktionary

saga (Noun)
An Old Norse Icelandic prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
saga (Noun)
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

saga (n.)
A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
saga (pl. )
of Sagum

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

saga
A traditional or legendary story, usually dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, heroes or events, that is with or without determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, but is used to explain some practice, rite or phenomenon of nature, or to justify the existence of a social institution.
saga
A form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in a long and leisurely narrative.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

saga
sä′ga, n. a tale, historical or fabulous, in the old prose literature of Iceland.—n. Sä′gaman, a narrator of sagas. [Ice. saga, pl. sögur—segja, say.]

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saga, noun, singular of sagas.

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