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mythologist

[ mi-thol-uh-jist ]

noun

  1. an expert in mythology.
  2. a writer of myths.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mythologist1

1625–35; < Greek mȳthológ ( os ) story-teller ( mytho-, logo- ) + -ist

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Example Sentences

Doubts have been expressed by the German poet and mythologist, Karl Simrock, whether this was the primitive motive.

It is from such examples as these that folklore may assist the mythologist who gropes for the principles of ancient mythic ideas.

This may seem very wrong and very unscientific to the scientific mythologist.

It is with these antique stories that the mythologist is concerned.

To unriddle this is the task of the mythologist, who can only succeed in doing so by intuition.

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