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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of countryfolk¹

First recorded in 1540–50; country + folk

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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