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myth
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- pronunciation:
- mIth
- features:
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A myth is a story passed down from people who lived long, long ago. Myths are often interesting and exciting stories that explain things like how the world began or where things in nature came from. Many ancient people, living in different places in the world, created their own myths about where the sun came from, for example, or how people came to live on the earth. Myths often tell stories about the gods of an ancient people or of strange or amazing creatures.
An old Egyptian myth tells why the Nile River floods every year.One ancient Greek myth tells how people first got fire. The myth says that a god named Prometheus stole it from the other gods and gave it to humans. For doing this, Prometheus was punished in a cruel way by Zeus, the king of the gods.- synonyms:
- folklore, legend
- similar words:
- history, story, tale, tradition
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A myth is something that most people, or many people, believe is a fact but has never really been proven. It's just something that people accept as true.
No one around here knows how the unusual lake was formed, but there is a myth among the people that explains it.- similar words:
- fiction, story
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When people say that some story or idea is a "myth," they often mean that evidence has been found to show that this thing is not true even though most people, or very many people, believe that it is.
People believe that mice love cheese, but animal experts say it's a myth.It's a myth that tarantulas are very dangerous to people. They just look very scary. |
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