mythnoun
uk/mɪθ/us/mɪθ/myth noun (ANCIENT STORY)
B2 [ C or U ] an ancient story or set of stories, especially explaining the early history of a group of people or about natural events and facts:
ancient myths
The children enjoyed the stories about the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman myth.
Most societies have their own creation myths.
More examples
- The writer's aim was to debunk the myth that had grown up around the actress.
- It's difficult to disentangle hard fact from myth, or truth from lies.
- The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
- In Greek myth, love is personified by the goddess Aphrodite.
- The popular myth is that air travel is more dangerous than travel by car or bus.
myth noun (FALSE IDEA)
C1 [ C + that ] disapproving a commonly believed but false idea:
Statistics disprove the myth that women are worse drivers than men.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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