Myth

Noun

 * 1) A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred  narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
 * 2)  such stories as a genre
 * 3) A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
 * 4) A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend

Adjectives for Myth
nature; heroic; solar; ancient; aboriginal; domestic.

Verbs for Myth
blast—; conceive—; dispel—; dissipate—; eradicate—; explode—; give rise to—; narrate—; preserve—; shatter—; strangle—; trace—; —antedates; —deals with; —develops; —evolves from; —explains; —grows; —portrays; —reflects; —relates; —reverberates; —survives; —wanes.

Thesaurus
tall tale, thick-coming fancies, thriller, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, trip, untruth, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, whodunit, whopper, wildest dreams, work of fiction, 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,

Etymology
From μῦθος:. English since 1830.

Related terms

 * mythic
 * mythical
 * mythicize
 * mythologem
 * mythological
 * mythology
 * mythopoeia
 * mythopoeic
 * mythopoesis
 * mythos
 * pseudomyth

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: اسطورة
 * Catalan: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: mythe
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μύθος
 * Ancient: μῦθος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: saga, uppspuni
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 神話 (しんわ, shinwa)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: myte
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, legendă
 * Russian: миф (mif)
 * Scottish Gaelic: fionnsgeul
 * Sotho: tshomo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, söylence,  efsane


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: mythe
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: μύθος
 * Icelandic: skröksaga


 * Japanese: 伝説 (でんせつ, densetsu)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: myte
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: миф (mif)
 * Swedish:

Noun
myth


 * 1) byth nasally mutated.