Folkways is valid Scrabble Word

Is folkways a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is folkways valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for FOLKWAYS in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN [SOCIOLOGY.]:

the ways of living, thinking, and acting in a human group, built up without conscious design but serving as compelling guides of conduct.

PLURAL NOUN:

traditional and customary ways of living

NOUN:

FOLKWAY, a traditional custom of a people

Words related to FOLKWAYS

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How to use FOLKWAYS in a sentence

These customs and folk-ways must be so important in the opinion of the community as to make their violation a serious affair.
The folk-ways have a certain validity and a certain right to respect, but no one who believes in change can deny that they are a hindrance as well as a good.
The traditions and folk-ways against the marriage of close relations grew from the familiarity that came from the living together of brother and sister, for instance, in one home.
This feeling gradually worked itself into custom and habit and from that into folk-ways and laws.
Many laws are so recent that they have not grown to be folk-ways or fixed new habits, and their violation brings no moral shock.
When these habits and customs are old enough they become the folk-ways of the people.
When the folk-ways change the laws change, even though no legislature or judge has recorded their repeal.
It must be obvious that it was not easy for man with his age-old machine, his inherited institutions and his ancient folk-ways, to adjust himself rapidly to the change.
Social conventions were loosening, new customs and habits were becoming folk-ways.
Here we perceive a notable example of the almost instantaneous disruption of established folk-ways.

Similar words containing FOLKWAY without suffix s

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