myth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.

   “Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.”

2. isim Such stories as a genre.

   “Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)”

3. isim A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.

   “Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.”

4. isim A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend

   “Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)”

5. isim A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

   “As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.”

6. isim An invented story, theory, or concept.

   “His story is a pure myth.”