folklore

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Folk lore

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

midrash ethnology culture convention sociology arts custom fantasy legend myth civilization mythology epic anthropology biographical
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Antonyms

foundation real world fact question creation reality
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Hypernyms

lore

Phrases with the word

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Examples

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. Andy Hertzfeld

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest. Terri Windling

Q: You never heard about it again? A: No. There was no Face-Space or Twitter at the time, so they would have had to put it in a 'zine. Now it's just folklore. Except it's not folklore because I've just confirmed it. Davey Havok

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. Alan Dundes

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. Paul Henderson

Close letter words and terms

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