Associations to the word «Myth»
Noun
- Tale
- Telling
- Saga
- Epithet
- Boa
- Medusa
- Fascism
- Storytelling
- Argonaut
- Reality
- Herodotus
- Nymph
- Rite
- Origin
- Cupid
- Rationality
- Recount
- Odysseus
- Prehistory
- Anthropologist
- Fleece
- Gods
- Genesis
- Nietzsche
- Fertility
- Plutarch
- Fallacy
- Hero
- Stereotype
- Gaia
- Yoruba
- Jung
- Mortal
- Historiography
- Crete
- Navajo
- Totem
- Fragmentary
- Symbol
- Graves
- Utopia
- Pandora
- Inuit
- Proverb
- Ancient
- Negation
- Romanticism
- Immortality
- Anthropology
- Apollo
- Greek
- Shamanism
- Aborigine
- Nationalism
- Interpretation
- Veda
- Conception
- Religion
- Dogma
- Rape
- Allusion
- Belief
- Critique
- Divinity
Adjective
Wiktionary
MYTH, 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.
MYTH, noun. (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
MYTH, 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.
MYTH, noun. A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
MYTH, noun. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
Dictionary definition
MYTH, noun. A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.