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Myth

Myth Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Myth? [n] a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people Synonyms \| Synonyms for Myth: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Myth: adventure story \| allegory \| ancient wisdom \| apologue \| apparition \| archetypal myth \| archetypal pattern \| bedtime story \| brainchild \| bubble \| canard \| chimera \| cock-and-bull story \| common law \| concoction \| creation \| custom \| delirium \| detective story \| eidolon \| epic \| extravaganza \| fable \| fabliau \| fabrication \| fairy tale \| falsehood \| fancy \| fantasque \| fantasy \| fib \| fiction \| figment \| folk motif \| folk story \| folklore \| folktale \| forgery \| gest \| ghost story \| hallucination \| history \| horse opera \| idle fancy \| illusion \| imagery \| imagination \| imagining \| immemorial usage \| insubstantial image \| invention \| legend \| lie \| lore \| love story \| maggot \| make-believe \| Marchen \| Mishnah \| mystery \| mystery story \| mythology \| mythos \| nursery tale \| parable \| phantasm \| phantom \| prevarication \| racial memory \| romance \| saga \| science fiction \| shocker \| sick fancy \| space fiction \| space opera \| Spiritus Mundi \| story \| Sunna \| suspense story \| tall tale \| Talmud \| thick-coming fancies \| thriller \| tradition \| traditionalism \| traditionality \| trip \| untruth \| vapor \| vision \| Western \| Western story \| Westerner \| whim \| whimsy \| whodunit \| whopper \| wildest dreams \| work of fiction See Also \| Gotterdammerung \| mythology \| Ragnarok \| story \| Twilight of the Gods Myth In Webster's Dictionary \Myth\, n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.] 1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical. 2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton. {Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.

Myth Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Myth?

[n] a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

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Myth In Webster's Dictionary

\Myth\, n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos myth, fable,
tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied
   a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience,
   and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul
   are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the
   origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric
   origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as
   historical.

2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
   actual existence is not verifiable.

         As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
         these twenty years.                   --Ld. Lytton.

{Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.

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