| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mythopoeic |
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| SYLLABICATION: | myth·o·poe·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m th  -p  k |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or myth·o·pe·ic also myth·o·po·et·ic (-p - tk) |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of or relating to the making of myths. 2. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Greek m thopoios, composer of fiction, from mthopoiein, to relate a story : mthos, story + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | mytho·poeia (-p) , mytho·po·esis (-p-ss) —NOUN
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