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mythnoun a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of natureaccording to an ancient Greek myth, humans acquired fire from Prometheus, a Titan who had stolen it from heaven fable, legend, mythos allegory, parablefabrication, fantasy(also phantasy), fiction, figment, inventionnarrative, saga, story, tale, yarn the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or placeover the years Davy Crockett evolved from an actual person to one of the great figures of American myth folklore, legend, legendry, lore, mythology, mythos, tradition folklifeinformation, knowledge, wisdomanecdote, fable, folktale, old wives' tale, tale, yarn a false idea or beliefthe idea that alligators can live in the sewers of New York is just a myth delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, old wives' tale, untruth factoidsuperstitionfiction, pretense(or pretence)distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstandingmisinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementsophism, sophistryfib, half-truth, lie, story, tale truth, verity in 1830 |