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folk tune

folk tune is the alternative form of folktune.

Meaning of folktune

Noun

folktune (plural folktunes)

  1. A folk song, not including any words.
    • No. 6 is a Jewish folktune, and became very popular in Goldfaden's words and setting.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 452

Forms of folk tune

pluralfolk tunes

Questions about folk tune

What is folk tune the alternative form of?
Folk tune is the alternative form of folktune.

Words near folk tune in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: folk tune (page history and authors); folktune (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.

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