Folk

[fəʊk] or [fok]

Definition

(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'.

Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet

Definition

(n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks

Edited by Charlene

Definition

n. people collectively or distributively: a nation or race (rarely in pl.): (arch.) the people commons: (pl.) those of one's own family relations (coll.):—generally used in pl. Folk or Folks (fōks).—ns. Folke′thing the lower house of the Danish parliament or Rigsdag; Folk′land among the Anglo-Saxons public land as distinguished from boc-land (bookland)—i.e. land granted to private persons by a written charter; Folk′lore a department of the study of antiquities or arch鎜logy embracing everything relating to ancient observances and customs to the notions beliefs traditions superstitions and prejudices of the common people—the science which treats of the survivals of archaic beliefs and customs in modern ages (the name Folklore was first suggested by W. J. Thoms—'Ambrose Merton'—in the Athen鎢m August 22 1846); Folk′lorist one who studies folklore; Folk′mote an assembly of the people among the Anglo-Saxons; Folk′-right the common law or right of the people; Folk′-song any song or ballad originating among the people and traditionally handed down by them: a song written in imitation of such; Folk′-speech the dialect of the common people of a country in which ancient idioms are embedded; Folk′-tale a popular story handed down by oral tradition from a more or less remote antiquity.

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