Mythology

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mythology \My*thol"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Mythologies}. [F. mythologie,
     L. mythologia, Gr. myqologi`a; my^qos, fable, myth + lo`gos
     speech, discourse.]
     1. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
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     2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe
        the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the
        Greeks.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mythology
       n 1: myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a
            culture or institution or person
       2: the study of myths

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "mythology":
     Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western,
     Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory,
     ancient wisdom, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern,
     bedtime story, common law, custom, detective story, fable, fabliau,
     fairy lore, fairy tale, fairyism, fantasy, fiction, folk motif,
     folk story, folklore, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera,
     immemorial usage, legend, lore, love story, mystery, mystery story,
     myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythos, nursery tale, parable,
     racial memory, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction,
     space opera, stories, suspense story, thriller, tradition,
     traditionalism, traditionality, whodunit, work of fiction
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  MYTHOLOGY, n.  The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
  origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
  from the true accounts which it invents later.
  
  
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