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FOLK TALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
Synonyms:
folk tale; folktale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("folk tale" is a kind of...):
narration; narrative; story; tale (a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program)
Domain member category:
flying carpet ((Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go)
Instance hyponyms:
Arabian Nights; Arabian Nights' Entertainment; Thousand and One Nights (a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century)
Holonyms ("folk tale" is a part of...):
folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)
