folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊk/
ipa: /foʊk/
ipa: /foʊlk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: folks
form: vok
form: volk
form: volge
form: volke
Etymology: 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, Swedish folk and Danish folk. Doublet of volk.
Senses: examples: text: The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
ref: 1878-1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People:
text: We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!
ref: 1907, Race Prejudice, Jean Finot, page 251
glosses: A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
examples: text: There were a lot of folk in the streets.
text: Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.
text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: People, persons.
examples: text: I need to call my folks back home.
glosses: One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
raw_tags: as folks
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of folk music.
Derived terms: adfolk
alms-folk
almsfolk
anti-folk
avant-folk
beaker folk
blackfolk
Britfolk
businessfolk
chairfolk
Chinese folk religion
cisfolk
clansfolk
commonfolk
congressfolk
countryfolk
cunning folk
doom folk
electrofolk
elfenfolk
elf-folk
elfinfolk
elle-folk
elvenfolk
fairy folk
feathered folk
fieldfolk
finfolk
fisherfolk
folkadelic
folk art
folk-blues
folkcraft
folk culture
folk dance
folk dancer
folk dancing
folk devil
folkdom
folker
folk-etymologically
folk etymologist
folk-etymologize
folk etymology
folkfree
folkgame
folk hero
folk-hero
folk horror
folk house
folkie
folk illness
folkish
folkland
folklife
folklike
folk-like
folk linguistics
folklore
folk-lore
folkly
folk-medicine
folk medicine
folk memory
folk-metal
folk metal
folkmoot
folk music
folk name
folknik
folk-punk
folk punk
folkred
folk religion
folk religionist
folkright
folk-rocker
folk-rock
folk rock
folk saint
folk singer
folksinger
folksinging
folk song
folksonomy
folkster
folk story
folkstyle
folksy
folk tale
folktale
folk taxonomy
folktronica
folkway
folk-way
folk way
folkweave
folky
freak folk
gayfolk
gentlefolk
good folk
grandfolk
grey folk
hackfolk
henchfolk
hillfolk
housefolk
indie folk
kinfolk
kinsfolk
kithfolk
ladyfolk
landfolk
layfolk
little folk
lizardfolk
lizard-folk
menfolk
merfolk
neofolk
nonfolk
pseudofolk
psychedelic folk
psych folk
ratfolk
rat-folk
regular folk
seafolk
shopfolk
showfolk
skinfolk
smallfolk
snowfolk
straightfolk
streetfolk
there's nowt so queer as folk
townfolk
townsfolk
tradesfolk
transfolk
treefolk
turbo-folk
wee folk
wee folks
whitefolk
womenfolk
workfolk
wyrd folk
yachtsfolk
youngfolk
Related terms: Folketing
landfolk
Norfolk
Suffolk
volk