mythologist
Americannoun
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an expert in or student of mythology
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a writer or editor of myths
Etymology
Origin of mythologist
1625–35; < Greek mȳthológ ( os ) story-teller ( mytho-, logo- ) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Sun Ra was a mythologist, in a very benevolent, deliberate, emancipative sense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
John Bucher, a mythologist, writer and head of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, spoke with Holmes while he developed the piece, which takes the viewer through the hero’s journey.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
Rock-star mythologist Natalie Haynes, like Madeline Miller, whose “Circe” retells the story of the witch at the center of “The Odyssey,” reboots ancient epics with fresh perspectives.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2021
The script for George Lucas’s 1977 movie Star Wars was influenced by The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a 1949 book by the American mythologist Joseph Campbell.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2015
Or, lastly, did he write only as a mythologist, and care for nothing but the exercise of his spleen and genius?
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
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