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story vs folk tale

folk tale vs story

story and folk tale both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
story Yes No No No
folk tale Yes No No No
As nouns, folk tale is a hyponym of story; that is, folk tale is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than story:
  • story: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
  • folk tale: a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
Other hyponyms of story include tearjerker, tall tale, folktale, sob story, sob stuff, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, nursery rhyme.
story (noun) folk tale (noun)
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
a short account of the news
a trivial lie
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
a record or narrative description of past events
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