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Antonyms for folklore

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fohk-lawr, -lohr
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfoʊkˌlɔr, -ˌloʊr

Definition of folklore

Origin :
  • 1846, coined by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-1885) as an Anglo-Saxonism (replacing popular antiquities) and first published in the "Athenaeum" of Aug. 22, 1846, from folk + lore. Old English folclar meant "homily."
  • This word revived folk in a modern sense of "of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally," and opened up a flood of compound formations, e.g. folk art (1892), folk-hero (1874), folk-medicine (1877), folk-tale/folk tale (1850; Old English folctalu meant "genealogy"), folk-song (1847), folk singer (1876), folk-dance (1877).
  • noun tales from the past
Example sentences :
  • In this same connection may be named other items of folklore related by Mr. Dyer.
  • Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
  • Some of them are even comic characters, like the devil in Scottish folklore.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • This cruder belief is more familiar in the folklore of Europe than the other.
  • Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • In Folklore, however, the word is used in a different and wider sense.
  • Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of Norman folklore.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 » by Various
  • The traditions, mythologies, and folklore of all the past have thus arisen.
  • Extract from : « The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul » by Jirah D. Buck
  • Many of the Pennsylvania Dutch foods are a part of their folklore.
  • Extract from : « Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking » by Unknown
  • It is made up of two elements, an element of folklore and an element of satire.
  • Extract from : « Figures of Several Centuries » by Arthur Symons
  • This is more particularly needed in the department of folklore.
  • Extract from : « Folklore as an Historical Science » by George Laurence Gomme
  • This contact is a fact equally important to history and to folklore.
  • Extract from : « Folklore as an Historical Science » by George Laurence Gomme

Synonyms for folklore

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