MYTH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("myth" is a kind of...):

story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "myth"):

Gotterdammerung; Ragnarok; Twilight of the Gods (myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil)

Holonyms ("myth" is a member of...):

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

Derivation:

mythic (based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)

mythic (relating to or having the nature of myth)

mythical (based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)

mythologize (make into a myth)