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 Definitions of saga  [ˈsɑ gə]  

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Definition of 'saga' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) saga
a medieval Scandinavian prose narrative of events in the lives of historical or legendary individuals or families.

2.  saga
any narrative of heroic exploits.

3.  saga
Also called saga novel. a form of novel that chronicles the members or generations of a family or social group.

Etymology:  (1700–10; < ON; c. saw3)

Definition of 'saga' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) 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


Definition of 'saga' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) saga
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

2.  saga
of Sagum


Definitions of 'saga' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  saga
[WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.

Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L. Steele:

Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard P. Gabriel (RPG).

RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going logical south on route 101, parallel to El Camino Bignum). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a ‘health food’ restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake — the waitress claimed the flavor of the day was “lalaberry”. I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the color of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant.

After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavors. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: “If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's — MOVE!” Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in Berkeley, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavor, ginger honey.

Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth — indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit — a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that “Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat.” After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: “Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!” “Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some ginger on it for dinner?!” “Right! With a lalaberry shake!” And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humor, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream.

Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: “Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today.” RPG: “Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any ginger!”)

We finished the meal late, about 11PM, which is 2AM Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's!

Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly sug


Translation of 'saga' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a long, detailed story
I expect he told you the saga of his troubles.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sage Arabic flag Arabic: رِواية طَويلَة عن أجيال أ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: сага
Brazilian flag Brazilian: saga Czech flag Czech: sága German flag German: die Saga
Danish flag Danish: saga Greek flag Greek: έπος Spanish flag Spanish: saga
Estonian flag Estonian: saaga Farsi flag Farsi: داستان حماسي Finnish flag Finnish: saaga
French flag French: saga Hebrew flag Hebrew: הַגָדָה Hindi flag Hindi: आख्यान
Croatian flag Croatian: pripovjetka, saga Hungarian flag Hungarian: családregény Indonesian flag Indonesian: kisah
Icelandic flag Icelandic: saga Italian flag Italian: saga Japanese flag Japanese: 物語
Korean flag Korean: 무용담,전설 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: saga, istorija Latvian flag Latvian: sāga; stāsts
Malay flag Malay: kisah panjang Dutch flag Dutch: relaas Norwegian flag Norwegian: saga
Polish flag Polish: saga, historia Persian flag Persian: داستان حماسي Pashto flag Pashto: داتلانو كيسه، دمېړنو كيسه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: saga Romanian flag Romanian: saga Russian flag Russian: сага
Slovak flag Slovak: sága Slovenian flag Slovenian: saga Serbian flag Serbian: saga
Swedish flag Swedish: saga, historia Thai flag Thai: ตำนาน; เรื่องเล่า) Turkish flag Turkish: destan
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 長篇故事 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сага, легенда Urdu flag Urdu: داستان
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: trường thiên tiểu thuyết Chinese flag Chinese: 长篇故事

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