| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A body of traditional beliefs and notions accumulated about a particular subject: folklore, legend, lore, mythology, mythos, tradition. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. A traditional story or tale that has no proven factual basis: fable, legend. See BELIEF, REAL, RELIGION. 3. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fantasy, fiction, figment, invention. See BELIEF, REAL.
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