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folk
Found in thesaurus: people, social group, stemma, parentage, line, origin, stock, blood, blood line, descent, pedigree, ancestry, lineage, bloodline, line of descent, popular music genre, popular music
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folk
n.
people; people who share a common background or way of life (i.e. country folk); cultural or ethnic group
adj.
of people; traditional
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Folk
Folk or Folks may refer to:
- A generic term for people or nation
- Folk culture
- Folk taxonomy
- a surname
- Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the Colchester Martyrs
- Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician
- Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player
- Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer
- Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler
- Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player
- Eugene R. Folk (died 2003), American ophthalmologist
- Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler
- Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player
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folk
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) common people
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) grass roots
(member-meronym) plebeian, pleb
2. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
(synonym) tribe
(hypernym) social group
(hyponym) phyle
(member-meronym) moiety
3. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
(synonym) family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hyponym) people
4. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
(synonym) folk music, ethnic music
(hypernym) popular music, popular music genre
(hyponym) folk song, folksong, folk ballad
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folk
adj.
folk, of people; traditional
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folk
n.
folk, people; people who share a common background or way of life (i.e. country folk); cultural or ethnic group
