Myth - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |mɪθ|  American pronunciation of the word myth
Brit.  |mɪθ|  British pronunciation of the word myth

noun

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

Extra examples

It's an enduring myth that money brings happiness.

I don't believe the myths and legends about this forest.

Contrary to popular myth, no monster lives in this lake.

We exploded the myth that their army was invincible.

Contrary to popular myth, the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.

It was important to dispel the myth that Aids was a gay disease.

Most societies have their own creation myths.

Contrary to persistent myth, Hoover was an activist.

The faculty for myth is innate in the human race.

He perpetuates the myth that his house is haunted.

...according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed...

A myth may be deposited from a misunderstood text.

We are in the frontier West, the heartland of the American myth.

A new, nowhere-supported myth.

The programme sets out to explode the myth that some delicate tropical fish are impossible to keep.

Word forms

noun
singular: myth
plural: myths
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