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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Folk \Folk\ (f[=o]k), Folks \Folks\ (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f[=o]lk, Sw & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.] 1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such sprang mainly from war. --J. R. Green. 2. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form and often with a qualifying adjective; as the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.] In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. --Shak. 3. The persons of one's own family; as our folks are all well [Colloq. New Eng.] --Bartlett. {Folk song}, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. {Folk speech}, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: folk adj : (of music) characteristic of rural life [syn: {country(a)}, {folk(a)}, {hillbilly}, {western(a)}] n 1: people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" [syn: {common people}] 2: a social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: {tribe}] 3: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Masachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: {family}, {family line}, {kinfolk}, {kinsfolk}, {sept}, {phratry}] 4: the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community [syn: {folk music}, {ethnic music}]
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