mythmaker
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- noun
- /ˈmɪθˌmeɪkər/
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creador de mitos
- The marketing team acted as mythmakers, crafting a compelling narrative around the brand.
Examples
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These scenes were too bracingly human for the mythmaker who had wrapped her husband's presidency in the ribbons of Camelot.
Academic text (2011) -
Blending Western and Near Eastern mythology and using various masks and poetic techniques to explore new themes and subject matter in a new language, alBayati becomes the mythmaker and poet par excellence we see in his collection Bustan Aisha.
Academic text (2018) -
And if you're a mythmaker, what better subject to make a myth about than yourself?
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One must triumph: the realist or the mythmaker.
Fiction book (1996) -
Mythmakers: Compassion, One of the Things That Makes Us Human
Blog text (5) -
This is just as true for the new mythmakers as for the old.
Academic text (1992) -
He was a storyteller and a mythmaker.
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One myth is shared by the old mythmakers and the new—a monolithic view of sub-Saharan Africa that survives all evidence of its immense diversity.
Academic text (1992) -
The ancient Greeks were incredible mythmakers, creating stories that explained natural phenomena.
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As a talented novelist, she has become a notable mythmaker in contemporary literature.
Synonyms
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A person who makes up lies to trick people
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A person who tells made-up or imaginary stories, often as if they were true
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A person who makes up stories to trick people
A person who makes up false or exaggerated stories and says they are true
A person who tells lies to trick or amuse people
Antonyms
How Influential
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mythmaker is made of myth ('story') and maker ('one who makes'). A mythmaker creates or spreads stories or ideas that change what people believe, so the name fits someone who shapes public belief.