Definitions for folk

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folk folk

Spelling: [fohk]

IPA: /foʊk/

Folk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in folk (fklo).

Definitions for folk

noun

1. Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general:
2. Often, folks. (used with a plural verb) people of a specified class or group:
3. (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:
4. folks, Informal. members of one's family; one's relatives: one's parents:
5. Archaic. a people or tribe.

Idioms

1. just folks, Informal. (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people:

adjective

1. of or originating among the common people:
2. having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society:

Origin of folk

before 900; Middle English; Old English folc; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Norse folk, Old High German folk (German Volk)

Examples for folk

But it was much that the subdued English folk appeared there at all.

I moved to Washington in 1988 with the folk etymology of lobbyist firmly in mind.

But see the church in the hollow, and the folk who cluster in the churchyard!

Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.

At this point, he became Tom Sawyer, letting his musical compatriots—and the folk tradition—help paint his musical fence.

On most Sundays doth he preach here in the nave to all sorts of folk.

And on the other are the folk, numbers unknown, who would pretty much say to Alexander, WTF are you talking about?

The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

Carlow folk held up their heads when journalism was mentioned.

The Tiverton folk saluted them, always cordially, yet each after his kind.