Folk Definition

fōk
folks
noun
folks
The common people of a society or region considered as the representatives of a traditional way of life and especially as the originators or carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up a distinctive culture.
A leader who came from the folk.
American Heritage
A people or nation; ethnic group.
A peaceful folk.
Webster's New World

Folk music.

Webster's New World
The large body of the common people of such a group.
Webster's New World
A nation; a people.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Of, originating among, or having to do with the common people, who transmit the general culture of the group through succeeding generations.
Folk art.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
idiom
just folks
  • Down-to-earth, open-hearted.
American Heritage
just (plain) folks
  • people who are regarded as simple, unassuming, not snobbish, etc.
Webster's New World
one's folks
  • one's family or relatives; esp., one's parents
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Folk

Noun

Singular:
folk
Plural:
folks

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Origin of Folk

  • From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką (compare West Frisian folk, Dutch volk and German Volk), from *fulka- ("crowd, army"), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go (compare Welsh ôl 'track', Lithuanian pulkas 'crowd', Old Church Slavonic plŭkŭ 'army division', Albanian plog 'barn, heap'; the Slavic and Lithuanian words may have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic instead). (Some have also attempted to link the word to Latin vulgus, populus or plebs.) Related to follow.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English folc pelə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Folk Sentence Examples

  • These mountaineering folk talked a different language.

  • The folk songs are the truest and most interesting national literature.

  • No, no, he's a folk singer.

  • Isla has been singing folk songs in public since the age of ten.

  • He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life.

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