myth 音标拼音: [m'ɪθ]
n . 神话,虚构的事,虚构的人
神话,虚构的事,虚构的人
myth n 1 :
a traditional story accepted as history ;
serves to explain the world view of a people Myth \
Myth \ (
m [
i ^]
th ),
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 .
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2 .
A person or thing existing only in imagination ,
or whose actual existence is not verifiable .
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As for Mrs .
Primmins '
s bones ,
they had been myths these twenty years . --
Ld .
Lytton .
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{
Myth history },
history made of ,
or mixed with ,
myths .
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100 Moby Thesaurus words for "
myth ":
Marchen ,
Mishnah ,
Spiritus Mundi ,
Sunna ,
Talmud ,
Western ,
Western story ,
Westerner ,
adventure story ,
allegory ,
ancient wisdom ,
apologue ,
apparition ,
archetypal myth ,
archetypal pattern ,
bedtime story ,
brainchild ,
bubble ,
canard ,
chimera ,
cock -
and -
bull story ,
common law ,
concoction ,
creation ,
custom ,
delirium ,
detective story ,
eidolon ,
epic ,
extravaganza ,
fable ,
fabliau ,
fabrication ,
fairy tale ,
falsehood ,
fancy ,
fantasque ,
fantasy ,
fib ,
fiction ,
figment ,
folk motif ,
folk story ,
folklore ,
folktale ,
forgery ,
gest ,
ghost story ,
hallucination ,
history ,
horse opera ,
idle fancy ,
illusion ,
imagery ,
imagination ,
imagining ,
immemorial usage ,
insubstantial image ,
invention ,
legend ,
lie ,
lore ,
love story ,
maggot ,
make -
believe ,
mystery ,
mystery story ,
mythology ,
mythos ,
nursery tale ,
parable ,
phantasm ,
phantom ,
prevarication ,
racial memory ,
romance ,
saga ,
science fiction ,
shocker ,
sick fancy ,
space fiction ,
space opera ,
story ,
suspense story ,
tall tale ,
thick -
coming fancies ,
thriller ,
tradition ,
traditionalism ,
traditionality ,
trip ,
untruth ,
vapor ,
vision ,
whim ,
whimsy ,
whodunit ,
whopper ,
wildest dreams ,
work of fiction
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