MYTH meaning: Traditional stories explaining culture, phenomena

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word myth:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

myth: Merriam-Webster.com
myth, myth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
myth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
myth, myth: Collins English Dictionary
myth: Vocabulary.com
Myth, myth: Wordnik
myth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
myth: Wiktionary
myth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
myth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
myth: Infoplease Dictionary
Myth, myth, myth: Dictionary.com
myth: Online Etymology Dictionary
myth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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
Myth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
myth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
myth: Rhymezone
myth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
myth: Free Dictionary
myth: Mnemonic Dictionary
myth: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
myth, myth: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

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

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
myth: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

myth: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

MYTH: Acronym Finder

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

myth: Anthropological Terms
Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Myth: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

fact, truth, reality, certainty, authenticity

Types:

urban legend, legend, folktale, fairy tale, tall tale, fable, parable, more...

Phrases:

greek myth, creation myth, Origin myth, cultural myth, heroic myth, more...

Adjectives:

greek, ancient, old, popular, american, christian, classical, national, modern, common, personal

Colors:

indigo, midnight blue, amethyst, silver, gold, emerald, sapphire, crimson, pearl, lavender

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