Myth

[mɪθ]

Definition

(noun.) a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

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

Editor: Tess

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Fable, invention, allegory, parable, fiction, fabulous story.

Typist: Merritt

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Fable, legend, parable, supposition, fiction, allegory, fabulous_story,fabrication

ANT:Fact, history, narrative

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Definition

n. a fable a legend a fabulous narrative founded on a remote event esp. those made in the early period of a people's existence: an invented story: a falsehood.—adjs. Myth′ic -al relating to myths: fabulous: untrue.—adv. Myth′ically.—ns. Myth′icist Myth′iciser an adherent of the mythical theory; Myth′ist a maker of myths; Mythogen′esis the production of or the tendency to originate myths; Mythog′rapher a writer or narrator of myths; Mythog′raphy representation of myths in graphic or plastic art art-mythology; Mythol′oger Mytholō′gian a mythologist.—adjs. Mytholog′ic -al relating to mythology fabulous.—adv. Mytholog′ically.—v.t. Mythol′ogise to interpret or explain myths: to render mythical.—ns. Mythol′ogiser one who or that which mythologises; Mythol′ogist one versed in or who writes on mythology; Mythol′ogy the myths or stories of a country: a treatise regarding myths: a collection of myths: the science which investigates myths; Mython′omy the deductive and predictive stage of mythology; Myth′oplasm a narration of mere fable; Mythopœ′ist a myth-maker.—adjs. Mythopoet′ic Mythopœ′ic myth-making tending to generate myth.—n. Myth′us the same as myth:—pl. Myth′ī.—Mythical theory the theory of D. F. Strauss (1808-74) and his school that the Gospels are mainly a collection of myths developed during the first two centuries from the imagination of the followers of Jesus; Comparative mythology the science which investigates myths and seeks to relate those of different races.

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