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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or recorded in myths or mythology.
  • adjective Fabulous; imaginary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to mythology; proceeding from mythology: of the nature of a myth; containing myths: fabulous: as, a mythological account of the creation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to myths or mythology
  • adjective legendary
  • adjective colloquial imaginary, fabulous

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity

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Examples

  • Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?

    Selvans Canzate: a 'pure guess' 2007

  • The laft of thefe authors divided his hiitory into three periods: the firft he called the mythological period, from the mull remote records to. the time of the deftru&ion of the Alexandiian library, in the 7th century after Chrift j the fe - cond he named the dark period, from the laft - mentioned event, to the 17th century j the third, which he did not live to write, he called the mere a r tain times ofchem: JIy.

    The Monthly Review 1791

  • In Dream Angus, certain mythological episodes concerning Angus’ conception, birth and life are beautifully retold.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • In Dream Angus, certain mythological episodes concerning Angus’ conception, birth and life are beautifully retold.

    Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith 2007

  • The good part of our so-called mythological beasties is that they are very deeply embedded in us by now and only make rare appearances in dreams where it's child's play to cut them in half and send them back to sleep between the stardust from whence they came.

    Beer Money Darryl Price 2011

  • “A picture of Casiopea,” she says, referring to the mythological queen whom Poseidon turned into an upside-down constellation.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • “A picture of Casiopea,” she says, referring to the mythological queen whom Poseidon turned into an upside-down constellation.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • The speech of Phaedrus is also described as the mythological, that of Pausanias as the political, that of Eryximachus as the scientific, that of

    The Symposium 2006

  • I have just finished MY GODS, that is to say the mythological part of my Saint-Antoine, on which I have been working since the beginning of June.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

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