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folk way

folk way is the alternative form of folkway.

Meaning of folkway

Noun

folkway (plural folkways)

  1. (in plural, often) A belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.
    • He [Van Wyck Brooks] had opposed to the folkways the standard of the humanistic life. It was needful that he continue to affirm that standard by making it visible in his own spiritual manner, by living boldly, dangerously, in the fashion of the artist, by giving himself to life as men in America...1924, Paul Rosenfeld, “Van Wyck Brooks”, in Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section V, page 53

Forms of folk way

pluralfolk ways

Questions about folk way

What is folk way the alternative form of?
Folk way is the alternative form of folkway.

Words near folk way in the dictionary

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

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