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Folk

Folk Meaning & Definition
Folk Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Folk?

[n] the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
[n] people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
[n] people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
[n] a social division of (usually preliterate) people

Synonyms | Synonyms for Folk: common people | ethnic music | family | family line | folk music | kinfolk | kinsfolk | phratry | sept | tribe

Related Terms | Find terms related to Folk: acknowledged | admitted | animal kingdom | blood | body politic | breed | brood | citizenry | clan | class | common man | commonwealth | community | community at large | constituency | conventional | cultural community | customary | deme | dwellers | established | estate | ethnic group | everybody | Everyman | everyone | everywoman | family | fixed | folks | general public | gens | gentry | habitancy | hallowed | handed down | heroic | hoary | house | household | immemorial | inhabitants | inveterate | John Doe | kind | kindred | legendary | line | lineage | linguistic community | long-established | long-standing | matriclan | men | menage | mythological | nation | nationality | of long standing | of the folk | oral | order | patriclan | people | people at large | people in general | persons | phratry | phyle | plant kingdom | polity | populace | population | prescriptive | Public | race | received | recognized | rooted | sept | society | species | speech community | state | stem | stirps | stock | strain | time-honored | totem | traditional | tribe | tried and true | true-blue | understood | unwritten | venerable | whole people | world | worshipful | you and me

See Also | ancestry | blood | blood line | bloodline | C and W | country and western | country music | descent | dynasty | folk ballad | folk song | gens | gospel | gospel singing | grass roots | home folks | homefolk | house | line | line of descent | lineage | moiety | name | origin | parentage | pedigree | people | phyle | pleb | plebeian | popular music | popular music genre | rabble | ragtag | ragtag and bobtail | riffraff | schottische | social group | square-dance music | stock

Folk In Webster's Dictionary

\Folk\ (f[=o]k), Folks \Folks\ (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f[=o]lk, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.] 1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. --J. R. Green. 2. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.] In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. --Shak. 3. The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] --Bartlett. {Folk song}, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. {Folk speech}, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

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