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| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fable, fiction, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, narrative, saga, tale, tradition, folk story, mythos |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief description in document |
| Synonyms: | cipher, code, device, epitaph, head, heading, inscription, key, motto, table, underline, epigraph, rubric |
| Main Entry: | caption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heading; short description |
| Synonyms: | explanation, head, inscription, legend, title, underline, rubric, subtitle |
| Main Entry: | epic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long story |
| Synonyms: | legend, narrative, saga, tale, heroic poem |
| Notes: | epics are long poems about legendary heroes; sagas are prose epics about famous men and women, especially of medieval times |
| Antonyms: | short story |
| Main Entry: | epitaph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inscription on a gravestone |
| Synonyms: | commemoration, elegy, eulogy, legend, memorial, monument, remembrance, sentiment, epigraph, hic jacet, requiescat in pace |
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination |
| Antonyms: | truth, non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | folklore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tales from the past |
| Synonyms: | ballad, custom, fable, legend, myth, mythology, superstition, tradition, wisdom, folk story, mythos, oral literature |
| Main Entry: | inscription |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message |
| Synonyms: | autograph, caption, dedication, engraving, epitaph, heading, imprint, label, legend, saying, signature, wording, lettering |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth, non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | mythology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folklore |
| Synonyms: | belief, conviction, legend, lore, tradition, folk tales, mythicism, mythos, myths, stories |
| Antonyms: | actuality, history, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superstition |
| Synonyms: | fallacy, folk tale, folklore, legend, lore, myth, notion, tall tale, fairy story, false belief, tall story |
| Main Entry: | parable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, legend, lesson, tale, teaching |
| Main Entry: | saga |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long |
| Synonyms: | adventure, chronicle, epic, legend, narrative, soap opera*, tale, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tradition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | established practice |
| Synonyms: | attitude, belief, birthright, conclusion, convention, culture, custom, customs, ethics, fable, folklore, form, habit, heritage, idea, inheritance, institution, law, legend, lore, mores, myth, mythology, opinion, practice, praxis, ritual, unwritten law, usage, wisdom, ethic, mythos |
| Main Entry: | folk tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story that is passed down |
| Synonyms: | legend, myth, tradition, folk history, folk story |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, fallacy, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, tale, tradition, yarn, false belief, false knowledge, superstitious belief |
| Main Entry: | heading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | title |
| Synonyms: | caption, description, headline, label, legend, descriptor, lemma, rubric |
| Main Entry: | record |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of event or proceedings |
| Synonyms: | almanac, annals, archive, archives, chronicle, comic book, diary, directory, document, entry, evidence, file, history, inscription, jacket, journal, legend, log, manuscript, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, monument, note, register, remembrance, report, script, scroll, story, testimony, trace, track record*, transcript, witness, writing, documentation, memo, paper trail, registry, swindle sheet, transcription, written material |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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