saga
pronunciation
How to pronounce saga in British English:
UK [ˈsɑ:gə]
How to pronounce saga in American English:
US [ˈsɑɡə]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- saga
- saga: see saw
- saga (n.)
- 1709, an antiquarians' revival to describe the medieval prose narratives of Iceland and Norway, from Old Norse saga "saga, story," cognate with Old English sagu "a saying" (see saw (n.2)). Properly, a narrative composition of Iceland or Norway in the Middle Ages, or one that has their characteristics. Meaning "long, convoluted story" is from 1857.
Example
- 1. Immediately afterward , a few bold tabloid newspapers in china began heralding the ' nail house saga ' as the ' birth of citizen journalism in china ' .
- 2. Given the euro-zone saga , it is not surprising that european equities do well when the markets are having one of their bouncier , " risk on " days .
- 3. When I visited a camp , held in olympic national park , some of the middle schoolers already knew the elwha 's saga well ; others couldn 't spell the river 's name .