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Defenition of the word folk

    • Defenition of the word folk

      • (of music) characteristic of rural life
      • people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Masachusetts since the Mayflower"
      • people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
      • the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
      • a social division of (usually preliterate) people
      • people in general; "they''re just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
      • people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
      • people in general (often used in the plural)
      • people descended from a common ancestor

    Synonyms for the word folk

      • common people
      • country
      • ethnic music
      • family
      • family line
      • folk music
      • hillbilly
      • household
      • kinfolk
      • kinsfolk
      • people
      • phratry
      • sept
      • tribe
      • western

    Similar words in the folk

      • nonclassical

    Meronymys for the word folk

      • moiety
      • pleb
      • plebeian

    Hyponyms for the word folk

      • C and W
      • country and western
      • country music
      • country people
      • countryfolk
      • dynasty
      • folk ballad
      • folk song
      • folksong
      • gens
      • gentlefolk
      • gospel
      • gospel singing
      • grass roots
      • home folk
      • home folks
      • homefolk
      • house
      • name
      • people
      • phyle
      • rabble
      • ragtag
      • ragtag and bobtail
      • riffraff
      • schottische
      • square-dance music

    Hypernyms for the word folk

      • ancestry
      • blood
      • blood line
      • bloodline
      • descent
      • line
      • line of descent
      • lineage
      • music
      • origin
      • parentage
      • pedigree
      • people
      • popular music
      • popular music genre
      • social group
      • stemma
      • stock
      • surname

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