folk

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UK /fəʊk/ US /foʊk/

adj 4noun 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, classical, common, gaulish, germanic, germanic, many, spanish

My grandmother loved collecting common folk remedies that her mother had passed down through generations.

VERB + FOLK

become, call, interest, knows, like, name, played, singing

My grandparents became folk musicians after they retired and learned to play traditional instruments.

FOLK + NOUN

art, genius, libertarians, linguistics, mr, museum, music, one's

The folk museum in our town displays traditional crafts and artifacts from the nineteenth century.

PREP.

about, among, from, in, in, on, out, through

There's a lot of talk about folk music these days among younger people.

ADV.

such

Such folk always seemed to know everyone's business in the small town.

Definitions

noun

A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

Ellipsis of folk music.

adj

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

Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.

Of or related to local building materials and styles.

Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.

folk psychology; folk linguistics

Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.

name

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — people in general (often used in the plural)

folks

noun — people descended from a common ancestor

family
kinfolk
kinsfolk
sept
phratry

noun — a social division of (usually preliterate) people

tribe

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

there's nowt so queer as folk

Nothing is as strange as people can be; people can behave very oddly sometimes.

Well (shakes her head with a little smile as she goes on knitting)—there's nowt so queer as folk! (Shakes her head again.)

folk devil

A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.

It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, "Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil.

Example Bank

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

Wiktionary

We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

Wiktionary

There were a lot of folk in the streets.

Wiktionary

folk psychology; folk linguistics

Wiktionary

That folk singer is very popular with people in general.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, folk is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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