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MYTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("myth" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "myth"):
Gotterdammerung; Ragnarok; Twilight of the Gods (myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil)
Holonyms ("myth" is a member of...):
mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)
Derivation:
mythic (based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)
mythic (relating to or having the nature of myth)
mythical (based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)
mythologize (make into a myth)
