'Folk' definitions:
Definition of 'folk'
(from WordNet)
noun
People in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" [syn: folk, folks, common people]
noun
A social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe, folk]
noun
People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]
noun
The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community [syn: folk music, ethnic music, folk]
Definition of 'Folk'
From: GCIDE
- Folk \Folk\ (f[=o]k), Folks \Folks\ (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f[=o]lk, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.]
- 1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- 2. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people.
- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'folk'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- animal kingdom,
- blood,
- body politic,
- breed,
- brood,
- citizenry,
- clan,
- class,
- common man,
- commonwealth,
- community,
- community at large,
- constituency,
- conventional,
- cultural community,
- customary,
- deme,
- dwellers,
- established,
- estate,
- ethnic group,
- everybody,
- everyman,
- Everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- family,
- fixed,
- folks,
- general public,
- gens,
- gentry,
- habitancy,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- house,
- household,
- immemorial,
- inhabitants,
- inveterate,
- John Doe,
- kind,
- kindred,
- legendary,
- line,
- lineage,
- linguistic community,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- matriclan,
- men,
- menage,
- mythological,
- nation,
- nationality,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- oral,
- order,
- patriclan,
- people,
- people at large,
- people in general,
- persons,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- plant kingdom,
- polity,
- populace,
- population,
- prescriptive,
- Public,
- public,
- race,
- received,
- recognized,
- rooted,
- sept,
- society,
- species,
- speech community,
- state,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- time-honored,
- totem,
- traditional,
- tribe,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- whole people,
- world,
- worshipful,
- you and me