saganoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsɑː.ɡə/us/ˈsɑː.ɡə/a long story about Scandinavian history, written in the Old Norse language in the Middle Ages, mainly in Iceland:
Norse sagas
a long story about past events over a long period of time:
Her new novel is a lengthy and compelling family saga.
a long complicated series of related, usually negative, events:
It was just another episode in the ongoing saga of their marriage problems.
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