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countryfolk

[ kuhn-tree-fohk ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. people living or raised in the country; rustics.
  2. people from the same country; compatriots.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of countryfolk1

First recorded in 1540–50; country + folk
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Example Sentences

This is how the day of the Holy Blood procession is finished by many of the countryfolk.

The countryfolk, many of whom had remained friendly, began bringing back spoil which they had wrested from wrongful possessors.

They had learned to play there like two well-brought-up children, in pantomime, so as not to scandalize pious countryfolk.

But the most noticeable change occurs in the dress of countryfolk and ordinary citizens.

He knew the countryside and the countryfolk inside out, and he was a living unwritten chronicle of the East Wessex hunt.

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