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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
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.