Noun

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The aggregate of past events.

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The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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A set of events involving an entity.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Shared experience or interaction.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

(uncountable) Such stories as a genre.

Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings.'' (E. Clodd, ''Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)

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

Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)

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

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As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.