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单词 folk-memory
释义

folk /fōk/

noun
  1. People, collectively or distributively
  2. A nation or people
  3. The people or commons (archaic)
  4. Those of one's own family, relations (informal)
  5. Now generally used as a pl (either folk or folks) to mean people in general
  6. Folk music
adjective

As practised, etc by ordinary people, and handed down by tradition (found also in folk art, folk-craft, folk medicine, etc)

ORIGIN: OE folc; ON folk; Ger Volk

folkˈie noun (informal)

  1. A lover of folk music
  2. A folk musician

folkˈsiness noun

folkˈsy adjective (chiefly US)

  1. Everyday
  2. Friendly
  3. Sociable
  4. Of ordinary people
  5. (artificially) traditional in style

folk dance noun

A dance handed down by tradition of the people

folk etymology noun

Popular unscientific attempts at etymology

folkˈ-free adjective (archaic)

Having the rights of a freeman

folk hero noun

A hero in the eyes of the ordinary people, or in the traditions of a people

folkˈland noun

(OE folcland) in Anglo-Saxon times, probably land held by folk-right, as opposed to bōcland (bookland)

folkˈlore noun

  1. The ancient observances and customs, the notions, beliefs, traditions, superstitions and prejudices of the common people
  2. The study of these observances, etc, the science of the survival of archaic belief and custom in modern ages (a name suggested by WJ Thoms in 1846)

folkˈlōric adjective

folkˈlōrist noun

A person who studies folklore

folk-memˈory noun

  1. A memory of an event that survives in a community through many generations
  2. The power of remembering as attributed to a community

folkˈmoot noun

An assembly of the people among the Anglo-Saxons

folk music noun

The music (esp song) handed down in the popular tradition of the people, or contemporary music of a similar style

folkˈ-right noun

The common law or right of the people

folk rock noun

A form of popular music which adapts folk melodies to the rhythm of rock music

folkˈ-singer noun

folk song noun

  1. Any song or ballad (frequently anonymous) originating among the people and traditionally handed down by them
  2. A modern song composed and performed in the same idiom (esp by a singer-songwriter)

folkˈ-speech noun

The dialect of the common people of a country, in which ancient idioms are embedded

folk story or folk tale noun

A popular story handed down by oral tradition from a more or less remote antiquity

folk tune noun

A tune handed down among the people

folkˈway noun

(usu in pl) a traditional way of thinking, feeling or acting, followed unreflectingly by a social group

folkˈ-weave noun

A loosely woven fabric
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