mythology
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
First attested as Middle English [Term?] 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”).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mĭthôlôjē, IPA(key): /mɪˈθɒlədʒi/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɪˈθɑlədʒi/
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
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.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in 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.
- (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, 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, 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, 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, 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
pervasive elements of a fictional universe
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collection and study of myths
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See alsoEdit
- Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia