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- [mith]
- /mɪθ/
- /mɪθ/
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- [mith]
- /mɪθ/
Definitions of myth word
- noun myth a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. 1
- noun myth stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth. 1
- noun myth any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth. 1
- noun myth an imaginary or fictitious thing or person. 1
- noun myth an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. 1
- noun myth A traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. 1
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Origin of myth
First appearance:
before 1820 One of the 38% newest English words
1820-30; < Late Latin mȳthos < Greek mŷthos story, word
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Parts of speech for Myth
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
myth popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
myth usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for myth
noun myth
- parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
- illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
- legend — a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
Antonyms for myth
noun myth
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- fact — Fully Automated Compiling Technique
- non-fiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
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