folk

folk (f

n. pl. folk or folks

a. The common people of a society or region considered as the representatives of a traditional way of life and especially as the originators or carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up a distinctive culture: a leader who came from the folk.

b. Archaic A nation; a people.

2. Informal People in general. Often used in the plural: Folks around here are very friendly.

3. People of a specified group or kind. Often used in the plural: city folks; rich folk.

4. folks Informal

a. The members of one's family or childhood household; one's relatives.

b. One's parents: My folks are coming for a visit.

adj.

Of, occurring in, or originating among the common people: folk culture; a folk hero.

Idiom:

just folks Informal

Down-to-earth, open-hearted.

[Middle English, from Old English folc; see pel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

folk

Noun, pl

1. people in general, esp. those of a particular group or class: ordinary folk

2. Also: (folks) Informal members of one's family; relatives

Noun

1. Informal short for folk music

2. a people or tribe

Adjective

originating from or traditional to the common people of a country: folk art [Old English folc]

Folk people in general; members of a family. See also kinsfolk.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	folk - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" common people, folks people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" country people, countryfolk - people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics gentlefolk - people of good family and breeding and high social status grass roots - the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) home folk - folks from your own home town ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble - disparaging terms for the common people pleb, plebeian - one of the common people
	2.	folk - a social division of (usually preliterate) people tribe social group - people sharing some social relation moiety - one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe phyle - a tribe of ancient Athenians
	3.	folk - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, family people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day" house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York" dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
	4.	folk - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community ethnic music, folk music folk ballad, folk song, folksong - a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture schottische - music performed for dancing the schottische popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) C and W, country and western, country music - a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments gospel singing, gospel - folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) square-dance music - music performed for square dancing