Definitions for: Myth


[n] a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: Gotterdammerung, mythology, Ragnarok, story, Twilight of the Gods

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