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Folktale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A story or legend forming part of an oral tradition.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A folk-story.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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."

Equivalent

folk tale

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

story narration tale narrative

Cross Reference

folklore

Hyponym

Arabian Nights arabian nights' entertainment Thousand and One Nights

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