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myth |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: myth n : a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
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