different between mythology vs neptunian

English

Etymology

First attested as Middle English [Term?] in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (muthología, “legend”) ????????? (muthologé?, “I tell tales”), from ????????? (muthológos, “legend”), from ????? (mûthos, “story”) + ???? (lég?, “I say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?thôlôj?, IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)

1. (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
2. (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
   • 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:

     This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
   • 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:

     This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Synonyms

• godlore

Derived terms

• mythological
• mythologist

Translations

See also

• Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Adjective

neptunian (not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Neptunian

Noun

neptunian (plural neptunians)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Neptunian

Romanian

Etymology

From French neptunien

Adjective

neptunian m or n (feminine singular neptunian?, masculine plural neptunieni, feminine and neuter plural neptuniene)

1. Neptunian

Declension