Mythos

Quick meaning: Mythos is a noun meaning Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).

Meaning

Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
2. (literature) A recurring theme; a motif.
3. A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.

Example Sentences

The term cobber [...] is still a part of our linguistic culture, and mateship is still a part of our cultural mythos.

POLY′MYTHY (S[ubstantive]) in Poetry, a fault in an epic poem, when inſtead of a ſingle mythos, or fable, there is a multiplicity of them.

Most of the bad broncos, if mythos is peppered with a slight shake of practicality, were more-likely-as-not just a cavvyard of crow-hoppers.

But the most highly gifted of all peoples in poetic insight were the Greeks. They possessed supreme ability in the interpretation of nature as expression of spirit. They have countless mythoses to express the immortality of man and his after-life.

Word Forms

• mythoi
• mythoses

Synonyms for mythos

Depending on context, synonyms include mythus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include myth, memorate, mythism, telltale, narrative, story.

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