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mythos

[ mith-os, mahy-thos ]

noun

, plural myth·oi [mith, -oi, mahy, -thoi].
  1. the underlying system of beliefs, especially those dealing with supernatural forces, characteristic of a particular cultural group.


mythos

/ ˈmɪθɒs; ˈmaɪθɒs /

noun

  1. the complex of beliefs, values, attitudes, etc, characteristic of a specific group or society
  2. another word for myth mythology


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mythos1

1745–55; < Greek mȳ́thos; myth

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Example Sentences

If you’ve never watched either show, you might be understandably surprised to learn that Gilligan’s blood-spattered mythos contained any significant LGBTQ presence.

Simmons put his own tumultuous relationship with West at the center of the story to disentangle the man, born Kanye Omari West, from the sprawling mythos that currently engulfs him.

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This is a mythos that will stump even dedicated comic book readers.

Silicon Valley’s champions and boosters have perpetuated the mythos of an innovative land of garage startups and capitalist cowboys.

Of course, the prevailing mythos presents high school football as the ultimate builder of character.

Music Box: An ornate music box that figures prominently into the Dark Shadows mythos.

But for all of her comic relief, Blankenship became a tragic figure in the Mad Men mythos, dying silently at her desk.

Yet still more striking than this, is the part which the dove plays in the Indian mythos of the birth of the Hindoo Saviour.

The suggested area was not beyond the limits of the Greek mythos.

Tis the old sweet mythos,the infant nourished at the fathers breast.

Every human being has his invisible angel, says the mythos; both are different and yet resemble each other.

Had she only lived earlier in the century she might easily have become the centre of a mythos.

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