Noun

(en noun)

The beginning of something.

The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

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(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

(in the plural) Ancestry.

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.

* Ld. Lytton

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