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English

Alternative spellings


Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /fəʊk/,
  • :


Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the folk of a land, their culture, tradition or history.


Noun

  1. A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  2. The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants.
  3. (plural, folks) One’s relatives especially one’s parents.
  4. people|People in general.
  5. A particular group of people.


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Derived terms


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Danish

Noun

{{da-noun|en|folk|folket|folk|folkene}}

  1. A people.
  2. People in general.


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Norwegian

Noun

  1. A people.
  2. People in general.


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Old Frisian

Noun

  1. people|People, #English|folk


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Scots

Alternative spellings


Noun

  1. people|People, #English|folk.


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Swedish

{{sv-noun|gender=Neuter|folk|folket|folk|folken|folks|folkets|folks|folkens}}

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-folk.ogg


Noun

{{infl|sv|noun|g=n}}

  1. A people.
  2. People in general.


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West Frisian

Noun

{{infl|fy|noun|plural|folken}}

  1. people|People, #English|folk


af:folk ang:folk de:folk es:folk fr:folk gl:folk ko:folk hy:folk io:folk it:folk kk:folk ku:folk hu:folk pl:folk pt:folk ru:folk fi:folk ta:folk te:folk vi:folk tr:folk zh:folk

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Folk \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.]
[1913 Webster]

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang
mainly from war. --J. R. Green.
[1913 Webster]

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.]
[1913 Webster]

In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.
--Shak.
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3. The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all
well. [Colloq. New Eng.] --Bartlett.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet folk
n 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" [syn: {common
people}]
2: a social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe]
3: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family,
family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]
4: the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an
expression of the life of people in a community [syn: {folk
music}, ethnic music]
Moby Dictionary
Everyman , John Doe , Public , 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 , 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


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