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legal
What does legal mean?
legal (adjective): established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce legal?
/ˈliɡəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does legal come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “legal” mean?
exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority
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devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
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characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
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established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
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