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# folklore

«folklore» in Mova's school dictionary: **the old stories, songs and beliefs of a people, passed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Folklore is the old stories, songs and beliefs of a people, passed down by word of mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/folklore/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in lessons, the traditional tales, myths and legends that have been collected and written down

### examples

- In this way I have been enabled to collect and verify the folklore included in this volume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/folklore/#x1)
- Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/folklore/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «folklore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/folklore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.