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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 myth /ˈmɪθ/
 神話,虛構的事,虛構的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Myth n. [Written also mythe.]
 1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
 2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
    As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.   --Ld. Lytton.
 Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 myth
      n : a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain
          the world view of a people