'Myth' definitions:
Definition of 'myth'
(from WordNet)
noun
A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
Definition of 'Myth'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. [1913 Webster]
- As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster]
- Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'myth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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