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1 : a story that is usually of unknown origin and at least partially traditional, that ostensibly relates historical events usually of such character as to serve to explain some practice, belief, institution, or natural phenomenon, and that is especially associated with religious rites and beliefs


3 : a person or thing existing only in imagination or whose actuality is not verifiable: as a : a belief given uncritical acceptance by the members of a group especially in support of existing or traditional practices and institutions <a myth of racial superiority used to justify discrimination> b : a belief or concept that embodies a visionary ideal (as of some future utopian state or condition)


Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary


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