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folk
[ fohk ]
noun
- Usually folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general:
Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- Often folks. (used with a plural verb) people of a specified class or group:
country folk; poor folks.
- (used with a plural verb) people as the carriers of culture, especially as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society:
The folk are the bearers of oral tradition.
- folks, Informal.
- members of one's family; one's relatives:
All his folks come from France.
- one's parents:
Will your folks let you go?
Synonyms: , , , ,
- Archaic. a people or tribe.
adjective
- of or originating among the common people:
folk beliefs; a folk hero.
- having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society:
folk culture; folk art.
folk
/ ´Úəʊ°ì /
noun
- functioning as plural; often plural in form people in general, esp those of a particular group or class
country folk
- informal.functioning as plural; usually plural in form members of a family
- informal.functioning as singular short for folk music
- a people or tribe
- modifier relating to, originating from, or traditional to the common people of a country
a folk song
Derived Forms
- ˈ´Ú´Ç±ô°ì¾±²õ³ó, adjective
- ˈ´Ú´Ç±ô°ì¾±²õ³óness, noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of folk1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of folk1
Idioms and Phrases
- just folks, Informal. (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people:
He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks.
More idioms and phrases containing folk
see just folks .Example Sentences
“The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit.
“I’ve been written off before, and if these folks decide to write me off again, they will only be wrong for a second time.â€
There were also folks like Paul Wilson, who lost his wife in the Seal Beach massacre and initially loathed Sanders until realizing the snitch scandal was real.
There’s a good deal of mutual analysis happening among these folks.
“We are really trying to get proactive here, instead of waiting, watching folks die,†said Daniel Tsai, director of the San Francisco Public Health Department.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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