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folkway

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊkweɪ/Sorted afklowyStarts with FEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.

Word origin

From folk + way.

Used in a sentence

  • It [a social institution] is a folkway, always new yet ever old, directive and responsive, a spur to and a check upon change, a creature of means and a master of ends.
  • No one, reared in the folk ways of this particular subculture, growing up in it, understanding it, as he does, has spoken—not in its defense particularly, but from the 'inside.'
  • Avila was certainly well prepared to comment authoritatively on the folkways of his ancestors; he spoke fluent Quechua and had spent many years among the Peruvian Indians as a missionary.

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