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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. Archaic A nation; a people.
  3. n. Informal People in general. Often used in the plural: Folks around here are very friendly.
  4. n. People of a specified group or kind. Often used in the plural: city folks; rich folk.
  5. n. Informal The members of one's family or childhood household; one's relatives.
  6. n. Informal One's parents: My folks are coming for a visit.
  7. adj. Of, occurring in, or originating among the common people: folk culture; a folk hero.
  8. idiom. just folks Informal Down-to-earth, open-hearted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. People, considered either distributively or collectively. Specifically— People in general; persons regarded individually: used in a plural sense either as folk or folks.
  2. n. plural Persons mentally classed together as forming a special group: with a qualifying adjective or clause: in this use chiefly colloquial and generally in the form folks; as, old folks; young folks; poor folks.
  3. n. The people as an aggregate; the common people: in this use without a plural form.
  4. n. An aggregate or corporate body of persons; a people; a nation: as singular folk, as plural folks (but rare in the plural).
  5. n. plural friends: as, we are not folks now.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  3. n. archaic A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  4. n. The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants.
  5. n. One’s relatives especially one’s parents.
  6. n. music Folk music.
  7. n. plural People in general.
  8. n. plural A particular group of people.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Eng. Hist.), obsolete In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
  2. n. colloq. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective
  3. n. Colloq. New Eng. The persons of one's own family.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. people descended from a common ancestor
  2. n. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  3. n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
  4. n. people in general (often used in the plural)

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulkan (compare West Frisian folk, Dutch volk and German Volk), from *fulka- ("crowd, army"), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go (compare Welsh ôl 'track', Lithuanian pulkas 'crowd', Old Church Slavonic plŭkŭ 'army division', Albanian plog 'barn, heap'; the Slavic and Lithuanian words may have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic instead). (Some have also unsuccessfully attempted to link the word to Latin vulgus, populus or plebs ). Related to follow. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English folc. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • treeseed The Folk or The Good Folk are respectful terms for fairies. Feb 17, 2008

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