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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
  • Indic:
    • IPA: /mɪt̪(ʰ)/
    • IPA: /majt̪(ʰ)/
KieliKäännökset
espanjamito, fábula
esperantomito
hollantimythe
italiamito
japani神話 (shinwa), しんわ (shinwa)
kreikkaμύθος (mýthos)
latinamythos, fabula, mȳthos
latviamīts
liettuamitas
portugalimito, fábula
puolamit
ranskamythe
ruotsimyt
saksaMythos, Sage
suomikertomus, myytti, uskomus, jumalaistaru, taru
tanskamyte
turkkiefsane, mit, söylence
tšekkimýtus
unkarirege
venäjäмиф (mif)
viromüüt

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
  2. (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
  3. A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
  4. A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
  5. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
  6. An invented story, theory, or concept.

Esimerkit

  • Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)
  • Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
  • As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkomyths

Luokat


A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.

Ballads of bravery (1877) part of Arthurian mythology

(uncountable) Such stories as a genre.

Odysseus Overcome by Demodocus' Song, a mythological painting by Francesco Hayez, 1813–1815

A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend

Väinämöinen, the wise demigod and one of the significant characters of Finnish mythological 19th-century epic poetry, The Kalevala (Väinämöinen's Play, Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1866)

A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

Thor's Fight with the Giants (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge. Thor is the god of thunder in Norse mythology.