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folksonomies

folksonomies is the plural of folksonomy.

Meaning of folksonomy

Noun

folksonomy (countable and uncountable, plural folksonomies)

  1. (Internet, uncountable) The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
  2. (Internet, countable) A user-generated taxonomy.
    • We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291

Questions about folksonomies

What is folksonomies the plural of?
Folksonomies is the plural of folksonomy.

Words near folksonomies in the dictionary

  1. folksingers
  2. folksinging
  3. folksong
  4. folksongs
  5. folksonomic
  6. folksonomies
  7. folksonomy
  8. Folkspraak
  9. Folksprak
  10. Folksprák
  11. folkstead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: folksonomies (page history and authors); folksonomy (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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