| Main Entry: | folklore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tales from the past |
Synonyms: |
ballad, custom, fable, folk story, legend, myth, mythology, mythos, oral literature, superstition, tradition, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | anthropology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | study of humans and their culture |
Synonyms: |
folklore, sociology |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideas, values of a people |
Synonyms: |
arts and sciences, civilization, convention, customs, development, ethnology, folklore, folkways, grounding, habit, humanism, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, the arts, way of life |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
Synonyms: |
fable, fiction, folk story, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, saga, tale, tradition |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
Synonyms: |
adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, mythology, mythos, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superstition |
Synonyms: |
fairy story, fallacy, false belief, folk tale, folklore, legend, lore, myth, notion, tall story, tall tale |
| Main Entry: | tradition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | established practice |
Synonyms: |
attitude, belief, birthright, conclusion, convention, culture, custom, customs, ethic, ethics, fable, folklore, form, habit, heritage, idea, inheritance, institution, law, legend, lore, mores, myth, mythology, mythos, opinion, practice, praxis, ritual, unwritten law, usage, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
Synonyms: |
allegory, fable, fallacy, false belief, false knowledge, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, superstitious belief, tale, tradition, yarn |
| Main Entry: | mythos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lore |
Synonyms: |
adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, myth, mythology, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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