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Myth vs Rumour - What's the difference?

myth | rumour |

Rumour is likely misspelled.


Rumour has no English definition.

As a noun 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.

myth

English

Alternative forms

* mythe (rare or archaic)

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.

    Related terms

    * mythic * mythical * mythicize * mythologem * mythological * mythology * mythopoeia * mythopoeic * mythopoesis * mythos * pseudomyth

    See also

    * legend

    External links

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    rumour

    English

    (wikipedia rumour)

    Noun

  • * Episode 16
    • Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
  • * 1599 , , JC II. iv. 18:
    • Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.