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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fable, fiction, folk story, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, saga, tale, tradition |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
| Antonyms: | fact, non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | mythology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folklore |
| Synonyms: | belief, conviction, folk tales, legend, lore, mythicism, mythos, myths, stories, tradition |
| Antonyms: | actuality, history, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | observance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony, rite |
| Synonyms: | celebration, ceremonial, custom, fashion, form, formality, liturgy, performance, practice, ritual, rule, service, tradition |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | unorthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
| Synonyms: | convenance, convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, habitude, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont |
| Antonyms: | abstention, refrain |
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, habitude, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | folk tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story that is passed down |
| Synonyms: | folk history, folk story, legend, myth, tradition |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, fallacy, false belief, false knowledge, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, superstitious belief, tale, tradition, yarn |
| Main Entry: | orthodoxy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dogma |
| Synonyms: | belief, doctrine, faith, religion, tradition |
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