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Date "FOLK-LORE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Folk-lore Whatever pertains to a knowledge of the antiquities, superstitions, mythology, legends, customs, traditions, and proverbs of a people. A "folklorist" is one who is more or less acquainted with these matters. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: FOLK-LORE |
| Specialty definitions using "FOLK-LORE": Innis Fodhla ♦ lore ♦ St. Monday. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various people son converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers." |
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| "FOLK-LORE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FOLK-LORE" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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| Language | Translations for "FOLK-LORE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | фольклор (folklore). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: folklore. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-k-l-l-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: looker, relook. | |
-3 letters: floor, kloof. | |
-4 letters: fell, floe, folk, fool, fore, fork, froe, kerf, koel, kolo, kore, loof, look, lore, oleo, orle, role, rolf, roll, roof, rook. | |
-5 letters: elf, elk, ell, fer, foe, for, fro, kef, kor, lek, loo, oke, ole, ore, ref, roe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-k-l-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: folklores. | |
+3 letters: floorwalker. | |
+4 letters: floorwalkers. | |
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