Saga

Definitions

1. A unisex given name.
   rare
2. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
3. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
4. A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets
5. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
6. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
7. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
8. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan
9. A unisex given name
10. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Equivalents

28 more languages

العربيةالقصّةسَاغَاملحمة

Българскисага

Bosanskisagaсага

Catalàsaga

Češtinasága

Esperantosagao

Suomisaagasankaritarutarinataru+ 1 more

Gàidhligsàgasgeulachd

Galegosaga

हिन्दीगाथासागा

Hrvatskisagaсага

Magyarmondarege

Bahasa Indonesiasaga

Íslenskasaga

Italianosaga

日本語佐賀佐賀県鳥栖

한국어사가

Kurdîdestansaga

Latinasaga

Bahasa Melayuhikayatsaga

Polskiepopejasaga

Portuguêssaga

Русскийсагаэпопея

Српскиsagaсага

Svenskasaga

Türkçedestansaga

Українськасага

Tiếng Việthuyền thoại

Examples

“The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.”

“Manchester City put⟳ the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.”

“According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand⟳ extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay⟳ up rather than face⟳ the costs of a legal battle.”

“Saga Becker”

“2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker”

“[…] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop⟳ ways to understand⟳ the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners[…]”

“We saw⟳ many other striking manifestations of hydrothermal activity in the Himalayan geothermal belt. The boiling spouters of Namling County, for example, emit endless jets of water and steam; the Rugyog fumarole of Saga County sends up vapors and gases as scorching as the breath of a furnace;[…]”

“Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border⟳, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place⟳, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.”

“More likely than capture⟳ is death at the hands of Chinese border⟳ police. Killings like⟳ that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream⟳ was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)”

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