mythology

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The collection of traditional stories of a people about gods, heroes, and the origins of the world.

   Greek mythology is full of gods, monsters, and epic adventures.

2. 2
   noun

   A set of widely believed but false ideas about something.

   There is a lot of mythology surrounding how the company was founded.

First attested as Middle English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “to tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “to say”). By surface analysis, myth + -ology or mytho- + -logy.

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