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View synonyms for folk singer

folk singer

noun

  1. a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing their own accompaniment on a guitar.


folk singer

noun

  1. a person who sings folk songs or other songs in the folk idiom
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • folk singing, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of folk singer1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

The 23-year-old folk singer from Chihuahua, Mexico, first touched hearts with the release of his single, “Amor Viejo,” in which he expresses to a lover his desire to never lose touch.

Here was a grown man, an assured performer who sells out stadiums, visibly trembling before the sight and the sound of the folk singer Tracy Chapman.

Poets and folk singers remember how this Glasgow schoolteacher tried to advance the rights of working people, and how it cost him his life.

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Before he found fame as an actor, Soul started his professional career as a folk singer, warming up audiences for stars like Frank Zappa, the Byrds, and the Lovin' Spoonful.

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Inverness was host to the Red Hot Highland Fling, described by organisers as "one of the biggest ceilidhs on the planet", where folk singer Siobhan Miller entertained partygoers up to midnight.

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