noun
a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot
• Syn: ↑Arthur
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑fictional character, ↑fictitious character, ↑character
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King Arthur,
the hero in a group of medieval legends about the Knights of the Round Table.
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(5th or 6th century) a king of England who led the Britons in battles against the ↑Saxons. There are many stories about King Arthur, e.g. that he pulled his ↑sword ↑Excalibur from a stone, and that he sat with his ↑knights at a ↑Round Table. Nobody knows if the stories are true, but they are very popular and have been used in poems, plays and films.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.