About The Word Myth

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Myth

Myth Meaning & Definition
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:

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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.

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