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| 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: | allegory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect representation, storytelling |
| Synonyms: | apologue, emblem, fable, figuration, moral, myth, parable, story, symbol, symbolism, tale, symbolization, typification |
| 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 |
| Notes: | a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement |
| 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: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | untruth |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, slander, subterfuge, tale, white lie*, whopper, calumniation, disinformation, falseness, falsification, fraudulence, revilement, reviling, tall story, vilification |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | religion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in divinity; system of beliefs |
| Synonyms: | church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, piety, prayer, preference, ritual, sacrifice, sect, spirituality, superstition, theology, veneration, higher power, pietism, religiosity, rites, sanctification, spiritual-mindedness, standards |
| Antonyms: | atheism, disbelief, agnosticism |
| 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: | fairy tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children's imaginative story with magical characters |
| Synonyms: | fable, myth, tale, yarn, Marchen, fairy story, ghost story |
| 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: | fabrication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | concoction, deceit, fable, fake*, falsehood, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, hogwash*, invention, jazz*, line*, myth, opus, smoke*, song and dance*, untruth, work, yarn, artifact, fairy story, jive* |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, fable, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, legend, myth, narration, narrative, novel, relation, report, romance, saga, short story, yarn |
| 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 |
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