folk
adjective
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. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
4. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
- folk psychology; folk linguistics
noun
1. people in general (often used in the plural)
- they're just country folk
- folks around here drink moonshine
Similar word(s): folks
Definition categories: group, people
2. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
Similar word(s): tribe
Definition categories: group
3. people descended from a common ancestor
Similar word(s): family, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept
Definition categories: group, ancestry, blood, bloodline, descent, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
4. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Definition categories: communication
Sentences with folk as a noun:
- Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.