Folktale

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  • noun. A story or legend forming part of an oral tradition.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A folk-story.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
  • noun. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
    • Word Usage
    "Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old countrymost of them gruesome; children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witchesbut never spoke about the war in my hearing."
    cross-reference
    folklore  
    Equivalent
    folk tale  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    narration  narrative  story  tale  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Arabian Nights  Thousand and One Nights  arabian nights' entertainment  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Mohammedan  apologue  blackfellow  bloodlust  break  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Marchen  Mishnah  Spiritus Mundi  Sunna  Talmud  
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