About The Word Myth
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Myth
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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.
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