mythology
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mythology
- (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
- (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.
- French: mythologie
- German: Mythologie
- Italian: mitologia
- Portuguese: mitologia
- Russian: мифоло́гия
- Spanish: mitología
- French: mythologie
- German: Mythologie
- Italian: mitologia
- Portuguese: mitologia
- Russian: мифоло́гия
- Spanish: mitología
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