- folktale
- noun Date: 1852 a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among a people
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
folktale
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folktale — folktale, folk tale folk tale . a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
folktale — index myth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
folktale — folk·tale or folk tale (fōkʹtāl ) n. A story or legend forming part of an oral tradition. * * * … Universalium
folktale — noun A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place … Wiktionary
folktale — Synonyms and related words: Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, ancient wisdom, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, bedtime story, common law, custom, detective … Moby Thesaurus
folktale — n. traditional superstition or story of a people which has been passed down from generation to generation … English contemporary dictionary
folktale — /ˈfoʊkteɪl/ (say fohktayl) noun a tale passed on orally in a community, usually without an identified author and often valued for its moral qualities. Also, folk tale, folk story …
folktale — noun a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk • Syn: ↑folk tale • Members of this Topic: ↑flying carpet • Hypernyms: ↑narrative, ↑narration, ↑story, ↑tale … Useful english dictionary
folk tale — folktale folktale, folk tale folk tale . a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
folk literature — Introduction also called folklore or oral tradition the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of cultures having no written language. It is transmitted by word of mouth and consists, as does written literature, of both prose and… … Universalium
