folksonomy
folksonomy · folksonomies
The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categoriesThe spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Meaning
2 senses(Internet, uncountable)The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
(Internet, countable)A user-generated taxonomy.
Origin
Blend of folk + taxonomy.Blend of folk + taxonomy.
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Forms
plural: folksonomies| Singular | folksonomy |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedfolk taxonomy
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable