Definitions for myths

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myths myth

Spelling: [mith]

IPA: /mɪθ/

Myths is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in myths (hmsty).

Definitions for myths

noun

1. a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
2. stories or matter of this kind:
3. any invented story, idea, or concept:
4. an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.
5. an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.

Origin of myths

1820-30; Late Latin mȳthos Greek mŷthos story, word

Examples for myths

All this seemed very plausible and interesting, but it is undoubtedly a myth.

The story should follow, if possible, a tale or lesson on the subject of the myth.

Then Ralph whispered, "We know it was only a myth, don't we?"

Hangover Rx: “The old ‘hair of the dog’ is pretty much just a myth,” says White.

And they all travel affordably, busting the myth that travel is only for the elite.

My mother's kind god was a myth and a joke, with no power here one way or the other.

That makes me think, Charlie, of a myth there is about the first anemones.

The reality of life in the West is harder and more complicated than the myth.

Catherine Lemay is impressed by neither the myth nor the reality when she arrives in Montana in the summer of 1956.

In the 70s, this myth kept openly gay people out of teaching positions.