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(1):

(n.) A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

(2):

(n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Myth'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/myth.html. 1828.
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