English-Portuguese translations for myth
- mitoComo todos sabem, trata-se de um mito. As everyone knows, this is a myth. Este debate é o mito contra a realidade. This debate is myth against reality. Foi um plano associado a um mito. It was a plan associated with a myth.
Definition of myth
- 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
- 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
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable
Examples
- Myth was the product of mans emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED
- Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.
- Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED
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