living legend
Noun
Meaning
living legend (plural living legends)
A person who is alive and has achieved legendary status.
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Being a living legend is such a precarious livelihood. It's like being a bar of soap in a shower which doesn't have any water in it.
Dr. Swaminathan is a living legend. His contributions to Agricultural Science have made an indelible mark on food production in India and elsewhere in the developing world. By any standards, he will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction.
I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
"The Living Legend" Captain America 255 (March 1981) The name "Erskine" was first used in a Captain America novel The Great Gold Steal by Ted White published by Bantam Books in 1968.
She was recognized as a Library of Congress Living Legend and she was awarded the 2004 National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
Porter also served as the auctioneer for the live auction, leading people to give up their money for the cause of continuing the work of the Living Legend program.