Myth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Myth	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Myth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
myth n a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Myth \Myth\, n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.] 1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical. 2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton. {Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.