myth
IPA: mˈɪθ
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.
- (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
- 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.
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
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Examples of "myth" in Sentences
- It is certainly shattering myth.
- The myths that help rape to flourish.
- The myth concerns the death of two gods.
- The Jesus of the Bible is the hypothesized myth.
- The background to the opera is the myth of Oedipus.
- The myths say that the iris links the gods to humans.
- The history of this festival is interwoven with myths.
- Humans were made of maize by the gods according to the myth.
- The by product was the myth of the extermination of the Jews.
- So it can be fairly confidently asserted that the legend is in fact a myth.