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folk
[fohk]
noun
(used with a plural verb), Usually folks. people in general.
Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
(used with a plural verb), Often folks. people of a specified class or group.
country folk; poor folks.
(used with a plural verb), people as the carriers of culture, especially as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society.
The folk are the bearers of oral tradition.
Informal., folks,
members of one's family; one's relatives.
All his folks come from France.
one's parents.
Will your folks let you go?
Archaic., a people or tribe.
adjective
of or originating among the common people.
folk beliefs; a folk hero.
having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society.
folk culture; folk art.
folk
/ fəʊk /
noun
(functioning as plural; often plural in form) people in general, esp those of a particular group or class
country folk
informal, (functioning as plural; usually plural in form) members of a family
informal, (functioning as singular) short for folk music
a people or tribe
(modifier) relating to, originating from, or traditional to the common people of a country
a folk song
Other Word Forms
- folkish adjective
- folkishness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of folk1
Word History and Origins
Origin of folk1
Idioms and Phrases
just folks, (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people.
He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks.
Example Sentences
One local replies that Port William is so seemingly timeless that folks didn’t know where the river would go when they built it.
Seminal American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was a pivotal supporting character in last year’s “A Complete Unknown,” had a biopic all to himself in this lyrical drama directed by the great Hal Ashby.
Kids scrambled up rehabbed trails, and some danced the schuhplattler, a Bavarian folk dance with lots of foot stomping and thigh and foot slapping.
“I heard in Tehama County ... folks saying, ‘Look, we care about the environment, but we can’t have electric school buses here.
Talking to folk around town, there is a deep-seated frustration.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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