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folk

adjective

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noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fəʊk/ / /foʊk/ / /foʊlk/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.

  1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  2. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  4. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.

    folk psychology; folk linguistics

    Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.

name

Etymology: * As a German surname, variant of Volk (“people, tribe”). * As an English surname, variant of Foulk, related to the noun folk, thus cognate with the above.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.

  1. A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

    The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

    We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

  2. People, persons.

    There were a lot of folk in the streets.

    Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.

  3. One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.

    I need to call my folks back home.

  4. Ellipsis of folk music.