- 1民俗、民間傳說
Folklore is the old stories, songs, sayings, and customs that ordinary people in a place pass down — not a tale written by one famous author. Fairy tales, local ghost stories, festival habits, and “this is how we have always done it” can all sit under it. A British writer, William Thoms, made the English word in 1846 from folk (people) and lore (the knowledge a group keeps), to replace older phrases such as popular antiquities; he was copying German Volk- compounds of the same kind. Folklore can mean the traditions themselves, or the study of them. Neutral, a little academic; newspapers use it too. Though actually, not every old story is folklore: a historical novel is not folklore just because it is set long ago.
From the word’s history
folk + lore, coined in 1846 by British writer William Thoms.
由 folk「民間」加 lore「知識」組成，1846 年由 Thoms 所造。
組成folk + lore. Coined in 1846 by the British writer William Thoms to replace terms such as “popular antiquities.”
同家族的字
- folkpeople, especially ordinary people of a place
- lorethe traditional knowledge a group keeps and passes on
- folklorista person who studies folklore
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
folklorenoun/ˈfəʊk.lɔː/
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The tales, legends, superstitions, and traditions of a particular ethnic population.
- [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
- Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece.
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The tales, superstitions etc. of any particular group or community.
- A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore.
- Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.
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slangmathematicssciencesThe collective of proofs or techniques which are widely known among mathematicians, but have never been formally published.
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