Living legend (person)


A living legend is a person who is both alive and either for doing something extremely well, or extremely famous. The sequence of words, "living legend", is an English collocation. Being considered a living legend may be an honor; being related to one can be a. The status has a positive connotation and is generally associated with respectable characteristics, but has also been attained for extreme.
Some people have declared themselves living legends. Notable examples of self-proclaimed living legends are professional sportsmen Usain Bolt and Zlatan Ibrahimović. The collocation is occasionally used in an anthropomorphic manner, such as for plants, body parts, fictional characters and instruments.