Usually means: Scholar specializing in traditional culture.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word folklorist:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. folklorist: Merriam-Webster
  2. folklorist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folklorist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Folklorist, folklorist: Wordnik
  5. folklorist: Wiktionary
  6. folklorist: Dictionary.com
  7. Folklorist, The Folklorist (TV Show), The Folklorist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. folklorist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. folklorist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folklorist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folklorist: Encyclopedia

(Note: See folklore as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (folklorist)

▸ noun:  A person who studies or collects folklore

Similar:
storiologist, folkloristics, fairyologist, storiology, mythographer, culturologist, fairylore, ethnologist, fossilologist, philologist, more...

Opposite:
folkloric, non-folklorist, anti-folklorist

Types:
mythologist, antiquarian, archeologist, egyptologist, sociologist, psychologist, linguist, historian, more...

Phrases:
finnish folklorist, more...

Adjectives:
american, professional, eminent, first, distinguished, amateur, great, modern, russian, noted, famous

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Similar:
storiologist, folkloristics, fairyologist, storiology, mythographer, culturologist, fairylore, ethnologist, fossilologist, philologist, more...

Opposite:
folkloric, non-folklorist, anti-folklorist

Types:
mythologist, antiquarian, archeologist, egyptologist, sociologist, psychologist, linguist, historian, more...

Phrases:
finnish folklorist, more...

Adjectives:
american, professional, eminent, first, distinguished, amateur, great, modern, russian, noted, famous



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