Riddle vs Myth - What's the difference?
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A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
To put something through a .
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To fill with holes like a .
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
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.
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.
* Ld. Lytton
As nouns the difference between riddle and myth
is that riddle is a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature while myth is 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.As a verb riddle
is to speak ambiguously or enigmatically.As a proper noun Riddle
is {{surname|lang=en}.riddle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* enigma, conundrum, brain-teaserDerived terms
* riddler * riddle stick * a riddle wrapped up in an enigmaVerb
(riddl)- Riddle me this'', meaning ''Answer the following question.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(riddl)- You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
- Your argument is riddled with errors.
Anagrams
* (l)myth
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Alternative forms
* mythe (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)- 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.