Folk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The common people of a society or region considered as the representatives of a traditional way of life and especially as the originators or carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up a distinctive culture: a leader who came from the folk.
  • n. Archaic A nation; a people.
  • n. Informal People in general. Often used in the plural: Folks around here are very friendly.
  • n. People of a specified group or kind. Often used in the plural: city folks; rich folk.
  • n. Informal The members of one's family or childhood household; one's relatives.
  • n. Informal One's parents: My folks are coming for a visit.
  • adj. Of, occurring in, or originating among the common people: folk culture; a folk hero.
  • idiom. just folks Informal Down-to-earth, open-hearted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  • n. A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  • n. The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants.
  • n. One’s relatives especially one’s parents.
  • n. Folk music.
  • n. People in general.
  • n. A particular group of people.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
  • n. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective
  • n. The persons of one's own family.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. People, considered either distributively or collectively.
  • n. plural Persons mentally classed together as forming a special group: with a qualifying adjective or clause: in this use chiefly colloquial and generally in the form folks; as, old folks; young folks; poor folks.
  • n. The people as an aggregate; the common people: in this use without a plural form.
  • n. An aggregate or corporate body of persons; a people; a nation: as singular folk, as plural folks (but rare in the plural).
  • n. plural friends: as, we are not folks now.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. people descended from a common ancestor
  • n. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  • n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
  • n. people in general (often used in the plural)
  • Equivalent
    folks   
    Verb Form
    folking    folks   
    Cross Reference
    good folk    the folks   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    community    tribe    kindred    people    nation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baroque    Coke    Koch    Polk    Stoke    Wouk    awoke    baroque    bloke    boak   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    creature    boy    fellow    one    citizen    servant    friend    farmer    warrior    inhabitant