Definizione monolingua

mythology

mythology (countable and uncountable; plural mythologies)

1. (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
2. (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
   • 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:

     This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
   • 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:

     This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Definizione dizionario mythology

	mitologia
	myths of a people
	collection and study of myths
	Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person.
	The systematic collection and study of myths.

Altri significati:

(countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.

(countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

(countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.

myths concerning an event, person or institution

(uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.