urban legend is a noun meaning "a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true". It carries one recorded sense.
a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for urban legend come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.