- (n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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