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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
/ əʊ /
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
- ˈڴDZ쾱, adjective
- ˈڴDZ쾱ness, noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of folk1
51Թ 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
Like a few other folks I spoke to, he alluded to the long-ago warning from Charles de Gaulle, the legendary French president and wartime general.
“Our folks worked very hard and did everything that they could to prevent it from getting to this place,” Choi, Ground Game LA’s executive director, said of the dueling lawsuits.
Reading "Sinners" as an allegory of cultural assimilation and appropriation is obvious, and it's also simple enough to get a variety of folks to walk through the door.
They get to figure out how to monetize us on our needs and then everybody ends up poorer for it, except for the folks at the very top of those corporations.
Government folk I speak to point to immigration plans that are in the offing, the spending review, the defence review, their industrial strategy – all coming before the summer.
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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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