Mythic vs Legend - What's the difference?
mythic | legend |
Larger-than-life.
* 1998 , Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
* 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
* 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
* 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
Mythical; existing in myth.
* 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
* 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
A person of extraordinary accomplishment.
A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records; a cover story.
* 1992 , edition, ISBN 067173458X, page 115:
* 2003 , Rodney Carlisle, , ISBN 0028644182, page 105:
* 2005 , , ISBN 1591146607, page 25:
(UK, Irish, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
As an adjective mythic
is larger-than-life.As a noun legend is
a story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.As a verb legend is
(archaic|transitive) to tell or narrate; to recount.mythic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
- The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.
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(wikipedia legend)Noun
(en noun)- The legend of Troy was discovered to have historical basis.
- The 1984 Rose Bowl prank has spawned many legends . Here's the real story.
- Achilles is a legend in Greek culture.
- Michael Jordan stands as a legend in basketball.
- According to the legend on the map, that building is a school.
- According to his legend , he once worked for the Red Cross, spreading humanitarian aid in Africa.
- If the documents are needed to establish "a light legend ," meaning a superficial cover story, no steps are taken to make sure that if someone calls the college or motor vehicle department, the name on the document will be registered.
- Sorge solidified his own position by returning to Germany and developing a new legend . He joined the Nazi Party.
- Both the agent's legend and documents were intended to stand up against casual questions from Soviet citizens, such as during a job interview, or a routine police document check, such as were made at railway stations.
- I've lost my pen! —Here mate, borrow mine. —You legend .