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单词 folk song
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folk song

also folksong
Word forms: plural folk songs
countable noun
A folk song is a traditional song that is typical of a particular community or nation.

folk song in British English

or folksong (ˈfəʊkˌsɒŋ)
noun
1. 
a song of which the music and text have been handed down by oral tradition among the ordinary people
2. 
a modern song which employs or reflects the folk idiom

folk song in American English

1. 
a song made and handed down among the common people: folk songs are usually of anonymous authorship and often have many versions
2. 
a song composed in the style of such a traditional song
Derived forms
folk singer
Word origin
calque of Ger volkslied, loan transl. (by Johann Gottfried von Herder, 1771) of E popular song

Examples of 'folk song' in a sentence
folk song

They were always playing their own music and old folk songs.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Some of what he was singing were folk songs whose origins could be traced back to these islands.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The aid workers kicked off with an exemplary display, singing impromptu Armenian folk songs to a flute and guitar in their cramped main office.
Marsden, Philip The Crossing-Place (1993)

Chinese translation of 'folk song'

folk song

n (c)

  1. 民歌 (míngē) (首, shǒu)

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