Definition of Folklorist

1. Noun. A person who studies or collects folklore ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Folklorist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Folklorist

folkiness
folkish
folkishly
folkishness
folkishnesses
folkland
folklands
folklife
folklike
folklives
folklore
folklores
folkloric
folklorically
folklorish
folklorist (current term)
folkloristic
folkloristically
folkloristics
folklorists
folkmoot
folkmoots
folkmot
folkmote
folkmotes
folkmots
folknik
folkniks
folkred
folkrede

Literary usage of Folklorist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"PROTEST OF A PSYCHO-folklorist. BY ANDREW J.ANC, MA LET me apologise for the word Psycho-folklorist! But as the only member of the sect thus named, ..."

2. Macedonian Folklore by George Frederick Abbott (1903)
"CHAPTER I. THE folklorist IN MACEDONIA. Ix the Near East, as elsewhere, Western civilization is doing its wonted work of reducing all racial and individual ..."

3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Mr. WA Craigie read a paper entitled " Evald Tang Kristensen, a Danish folklorist ; " and in the discussion which followed the President, ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A "folklorist" и one who is more or loss acquainted with these matters. Folk-mote [a folk meeting]. A word used in England before the Conquest for what we ..."

5. Publications by Parker Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Where, in short, does the folklorist end and the sociologist begin? These questions must inevitably occur to every folklorist who may take up the volume ..."

6. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx by JOHN. RHYS (1901)
"... on a ramble recently with David Lewis the barrister and Sidney Hartland the folklorist. It was to the effect that after the disappearance of the forwn, ..."

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