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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person;

2. the study of myths;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mythology \My*thol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Mythologies. [F. mythologie, L. mythologia, Gr. myqologi`a; my^qos, fable, myth + lo`gos speech, discourse.] 1. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths. [1913 Webster] 2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mythology n 1: myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person 2: the study of myths
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "mythology": Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, ancient wisdom, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, bedtime story, common law, custom, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy lore, fairy tale, fairyism, fantasy, fiction, folk motif, folk story, folklore, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera, immemorial usage, legend, lore, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythos, nursery tale, parable, racial memory, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, stories, suspense story, thriller, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, whodunit, work of fiction
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.