EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
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Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mĭthôlôjē, IPA(key): /mɪˈθɒlədʒi/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɪˈθɑːlədʒi/
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
EtymologyEdit
First attested in English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “I tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “I say”).
NounEdit
mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)
- (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
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2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
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- (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:
- This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:
- (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:
- This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:
- (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.
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TranslationsEdit
myths of a people
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myths concerning an event, person or institution
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collection and study of myths
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See alsoEdit
Christian mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Christian mythology- Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Egyptian mythology
- Greek mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Greek mythology
- Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Japanese mythology
- Norse mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Norse mythology
- Roman mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Roman mythology
- Indian mythology on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Indian mythology
