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| myth [ mith ] (plural myths) |
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1. ancient story: a traditional story about heroes or supernatural beings, often attempting to explain the origins of natural phenomena or aspects of human behavior
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2. myths collectively: myths considered as a group or as a genre
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3. idealized conception: a set of often idealized or glamorized ideas and stories surrounding a particular phenomenon, concept, or famous person
  the myth of the new man
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4. false belief: a widely held but mistaken belief
exploding some of the myths about dieting
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5. fictitious person or thing: somebody who or something that is fictitious or nonexistent, but whose existence is widely believed in
The loving wife turned out to be a myth.
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| [Mid-19th century. Directly or via French mythe< modern Latin mythus< Greek muthos "speech, myth"] |
