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.

Noun

 * 1)  A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
 * 2) The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants.
 * 3)  One’s relatives especially one’s parents.
 * 4)  Folk music.
 * 5)  People in general.
 * 6)  A particular group of people.

Adjectives for Folk
quick-witted; trivial; cross-tempered; quarrelsome; finical; guileful; guarded; suspicious; anxious; furtive; purposeful; true-hearted; famished; complacent; eavesdropping; ordinary;   old-fashioned;  showy; shadowy; .placid; unexcitable; wee; shepherd; pert; novelty-loving; scribbling; fashionable; timorous; humble; hard-working; religious; peaceful; indigenous; unwieldy; slow; heavy; pale; prosperous; happy; furtive; cunning; hysterical; well-mannered; reaping; invincible; marooned; congenial; worthy; bourgeois; plain.

Synonyms for Folk
people, persons, individuals, family, group, crowd, race, nation, congregation, gathering, community, members, brotherhood, society, association, league.

Derived terms

 * folklore
 * folk devil
 * folk etymology


 * folk hero
 * folk music
 * folkster
 * folksy
 * world folk-epic

Related terms

 * volk

Thesaurus
Everyman, John Doe, Public, acknowledged, admitted, animal kingdom, blood, body politic, breed, brood, citizenry, clan, class, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, constituency, conventional, cultural community, customary, deme, dwellers, established, estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, family, fixed, folks, general public, gens, gentry, habitancy, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, house, household, immemorial, inhabitants, inveterate, kind, kindred, legendary, line, lineage, linguistic community, long-established, long-standing, matriclan, men, menage, mythological, nation, nationality, of long standing, of the folk, oral, order, patriclan, people, people at large, people in general, persons, phratry, phyle, plant kingdom, polity, populace, population, prescriptive, public, race, received, recognized, rooted, sept, society, species, speech community, state, stem, stirps, stock, strain, time-honored, totem, traditional, tribe, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, whole people, world, worshipful, you and me

Alternative forms

 * voke, volk, volke

Etymology
folc:, from (compare West Frisian folk:, / Volk), from  (compare  ôl 'track',  pulkas 'crowd',  plŭkŭ 'army division',  plog 'barn, heap'). Related to follow.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Italian:, autoctono, popolo, abitante


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:

Etymology 1
From fólk:.

Noun

 * 1) people
 * 2) men
 * 3) crew

Synonyms

 * folkeslag, nation

Etymology 2
From folk:.

Noun

 * 1) folk music contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music

Noun

 * 1)  folk, folk music

Noun
folk (definite singular folket; indefinite plural folk; definite plural folkene/folka; vocative folkens)


 * 1) a people
 * 2) people in general
 * 3) folk

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) people, folk

Descendants

 * Dutch:

Noun

 * 1) people, folk

Alternative forms

 * fowk

Noun

 * 1) people, folk

Noun

 * 1)  people in general, humans
 * 2) a people, a nation; in compounds referring to local or national traditions (folklore), national institutions (folkhem) or international relations (folkrätt)

Compounds

 * folka
 * folkabuss
 * folkdräkt
 * folkförbund
 * folkhem
 * folkhushållning
 * folklig
 * folkliv
 * folklivsforskare
 * folklore
 * folkminne
 * folkmusik
 * folköl
 * folkpartist
 * folkrätt
 * folksång
 * folkvagn
 * folkvisa

Noun

 * 1) people, folk