Folklore can be categorized as a noun.
Noun |
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| folklore - the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture |
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| 1. | noun | Island folklore still recounts the story of the raft. | |
| 2. | noun | He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools. | |
| 3. | noun | Irish folklore has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. | |
| 4. | noun | In Japanese folklore, bakeneko are cats with magical powers. | |
| 5. | noun | Curupira is a character from Brazilian folklore. He's described as a man whose feet are turned backwards and who protects animals and forests. | |
| 6. | noun | Oni is the name of a being in the Japanese folklore. | |
| 7. | noun | African folklore is very interesting. | |
| 8. | noun | Johnny Appleseed is beloved in American folklore, because he traveled the country and planted apple seeds wherever he went; but folklore lovers don't know much about apple trees, which almost always require grafting to be much use. | |
| 9. | noun | There are speaking animals in all peoples' folklore. | |
| 10. | noun | In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away. | |
| 11. | noun | In Dutch folklore, kabouters are tiny people who live underground. | |
| 12. | noun | Väinämöinen is a central character in Finnish folklore. | |
| 13. | noun | Wilhelm Friedrich Radloff is the famous German scientist who studied the history and folklore of Turkic peoples and compiled the first collection of Tatar folk dastans. | |
| 14. | noun | Sami said that it was just folklore. | |
| 15. | noun | The study did rule out the possibility that Nessie, the favorite of folklore, is a long-necked ancient reptile called a plesiosaur. The study also rejected speculations that it might be a Greenland shark or a giant sturgeon. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| Island folklore still recounts the story of the raft. | |
| He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools. | |
| Irish folklore has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. | |
| In Japanese folklore, bakeneko are cats with magical powers. | |
| Curupira is a character from Brazilian folklore. He's described as a man whose feet are turned backwards and who protects animals and forests. | |
| Oni is the name of a being in the Japanese folklore. | |
| African folklore is very interesting. | |
| Johnny Appleseed is beloved in American folklore, because he traveled the country and planted apple seeds wherever he went; but folklore lovers don't know much about apple trees, which almost always require grafting to be much use. | |
| There are speaking animals in all peoples' folklore. | |
| In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away. | |
| In Dutch folklore, kabouters are tiny people who live underground. | |
| Väinämöinen is a central character in Finnish folklore. | |
| Wilhelm Friedrich Radloff is the famous German scientist who studied the history and folklore of Turkic peoples and compiled the first collection of Tatar folk dastans. | |
| Sami said that it was just folklore. | |
| The study did rule out the possibility that Nessie, the favorite of folklore, is a long-necked ancient reptile called a plesiosaur. The study also rejected speculations that it might be a Greenland shark or a giant sturgeon. | |