Word.ws English Dictionary

folk taxonomies

folk taxonomies is the plural of folk taxonomy.

Meaning of folk taxonomy

Noun

folk taxonomy (usually uncountable, plural folk taxonomies)

  1. (usually) The vernacular naming or classification of things on the basis of cultural tradition, rather than on scientific principles.
    Synonyms:
    ethnotaxonomy

Questions about folk taxonomies

What is folk taxonomies the plural of?
Folk taxonomies is the plural of folk taxonomy.

Words near folk taxonomies in the dictionary

  1. folk songs
  2. folk stories
  3. folk story
  4. folk tale
  5. folk tales
  6. folk taxonomies
  7. folk taxonomy
  8. folk tune
  9. folk way
  10. folk ways
  11. folk's-glove

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: folk taxonomies (page history and authors); folk taxonomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “folk taxonomies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/folk_taxonomies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.