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myth¹ Definition

myth (mit̸h)

noun

  1. a traditional story of unknown authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis, but serving usually to explain some phenomenon of nature, the origin of man, or the customs, institutions, religious rites, etc. of a people: myths usually involve the exploits of gods and heroes
  2. such stories collectively; mythology
  3. any fictitious story, or unscientific account, theory, belief, etc.
  4. any imaginary person or thing spoken of as though existing

Etymology: LL mythos < Gr, a word, speech, story, legend

myth² Definition

myth

mythology

myth Synonyms

myth

n.

fable, folk tale, legend, religion, lore, saga, folk ballad, mythos (Greek), allegory, parable, tale; see also story.

myth Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • neutrality: First, we must outgrow the myth of neutrality.
  • objectivity: Suw Charman â The myth of objectivity exposed Johnnie Moore â Authentic authority Adriana Cronin-Lukas â Blogs: ripping up the marketing mix?

Converse of object

  • dispel: However, testing the theory using an air filter enclosed in a vented housing should dispel the myth.
  • debunk: It's time we debunked the myth that buyers won't accept sellers ' surveys.
  • explode: We have exploded the myth that ASU policies should cover income loss for no more than 12 months, " York said.
  • perpetuate: Similarly many history books have been published which perpetuate long established myths.
  • peddle: Some so-called authorities on Spam peddle a myth that most spam comes from remote countries and that none comes from the USA.
  • propagate: Third, the link is sustained by propagating a myth.

Adjective modifier

  • Greek: Medea's story is the most terrible of the Greek myths.
  • Norse: Crossley-Holland, K. ( 1980 ): The Norse Myths.
  • urban: Urban Myths tend to be foul, foul stories.
  • Celtic: Celtica Celtica is a unique attraction telling the story of Celtic myths and legends.
  • Arthurian: He invests the language of the brief chapters of Arthurian myth with a sense of otherness.
  • ancient: With GMOs, as with the ancient myth, there is still hope.

Modifies a noun

  • buster: Refugees ( see asylum support ) Asylum seeker myth buster and information about the Asylum Support Service.
  • #3: MYTH #3: Don't put identification outside of your child's clothing.

Noun used with modifier

  • creation: A part of the Indian creation myth says the Gods created an ocean of milk from which all living forms emerged.
  • vampire: Today, many hundreds of millions of people are thoroughly familiar with all the minutiae of the vampire myth.
  • lending: Credit reference agency explodes more lending myths Credit reference agency Experian is hoping to demystify the many myths surrounding credit.. .
myth Quotes

La courtisane est un mythe. Jamais une femme n'a invente¤   une de¤ b auche. The courtesan is a myth. No woman has ever invented any new sensual pleasure.

—Flaubert, Gustave

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

The inscrutability of the East is, indeed, I believe a myth† The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies'dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

—Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell)

There was a muddy centre before we breathed There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete.

—Stevens,Wallace

Myth deals in false universals, to dull the pain of particular circumstances.

—Carter, Angela Olive

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofaras we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

—Fiedler, Leslie A(aron)

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

—Hockney, David

Our Meistersinger, thou set breath in steel; And it was thou who on the boldest heel Stood up and flung the span on even wing Of that great Bridge, our Myth, whereof I sing.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

The poem†is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we seeöit is, rather, a light by which we may seeöand what we see is life.

—Warren, Robert Penn

No blazoned banner we unfoldö One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold, The golden heresy of truth.

—Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó

Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.

—Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame

the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile