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say it: LEE-guhl
legal is an adjective meaning "established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules". It carries 5 recorded senses.
established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
of or relating to jurisprudence
“legal loophole”
relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
“the legal profession”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for legal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.