Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), 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.
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2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.
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As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton.
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Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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100 Moby Thesaurus words for "myth":
Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western,
Western story, Westerner, 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, mystery,
mystery story, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, phantasm,
phantom, prevarication, racial memory, romance, saga,
science fiction, shocker, sick fancy, space fiction, space opera,
story, suspense story, tall tale, thick-coming fancies, thriller,
tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, trip, untruth, vapor,
vision, whim, whimsy, whodunit, whopper, wildest dreams,
work of fiction
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Myth \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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