Usually means: Traditional stories explaining culture, phenomena.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word myth:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. myth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. myth: Merriam-Webster
  3. myth, myth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. myth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. myth, myth: Collins English Dictionary
  6. myth: Vocabulary.com
  7. Myth, myth: Wordnik
  8. myth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. myth: Wiktionary
  10. myth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. myth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. myth: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Myth, myth, myth: Dictionary.com
  14. myth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. myth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Myth (computer game), Myth (computer game series), Myth (disambiguation), Myth (series), Myth (song), Myth (video game), Myth (warez), Myth, The Myth (TV series), The Myth (band), The Myth (film), The myth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Myth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. myth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. myth: Rhymezone
  20. myth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. myth: FreeDictionary.org
  22. myth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. myth, myth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. myth: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. myth-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. myth: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. myth: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MYTH: Acronym Finder

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. myth: Anthropological Terms
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Myth: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
noun:  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.
noun:  A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
noun:  A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
noun:  An invented story, theory, or concept.

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