Folk

English

Adjective

Folk (not comparable)

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

Folk (plural folk or folks)

1. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
2. The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants.
3. (plural: folks) One’s relatives especially one’s parents.
4. (music) Folk music.
5. (plural) People in general.
6. (plural) 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

Terms derived from the adjective or noun "folk"

folklore folk devil folk etymology

folk hero folk music folkster folksy world folk-epic

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to "folk"

volk (dialectical)

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 (dialectal)

Etymology

Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulkan (compare West Frisian {{ Template:Fry/script |folk| face=term | lang=fry }}, Dutch/German Volk), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go (compare Welsh ôl 'track', Lithuanian pulkas 'crowd', Old Church Slavonic plŭkŭ 'army division', Albanian plog 'barn, heap'). Related to follow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fōk, IPA: /fəʊk/, SAMPA: /f@Uk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk

Translations

Noun

inhabitants of a region

Armenian: ժողովուրդ (hy) (žoġovurd) Italian: gente (it) f., autoctono (it), popolo (it) m., abitante (it) m.

Norwegian: folk (no) n., befolkning (no) Portuguese: povo (pt) m.

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fólk (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɔlk/, [fʌlˀɡ̊]

Noun

Folk n. (singular definite Folket, plural indefinite Folk)

1. people
2. men
3. crew

Inflection

    Inflection of Folk

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Folk	Folket	folk	folkene
genitive	Folks	Folkets	folks	folkenes

Synonyms

• (nation): folkeslag, nation

Etymology 2

From English folk (“folk music”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɔvɡ/, [fʌwɡ̊]

Noun

Folk c. (singular definite Folken, not used in plural form)

1. folk music (contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music)

See also

• 15px Folk on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Noun

Folk

1. (music) folk, folk music

Declension

Declension of Folk (type risti) singular plural nominative Folk folkit genitive folkin folkien partitive folkia folkeja accusative Folk folkin folkit inessive folkissa folkeissa elative folkista folkeista illative folkiin folkeihin adessive folkilla folkeilla ablative folkilta folkeilta allative folkille folkeille essive folkina folkeina translative folkiksi folkeiksi instructive – folkein abessive folkitta folkeitta comitative – folkeineen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. a people
2. people in general
3. folk

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fulkan.

Noun

Folk n.

1. people, folk

Descendants

• Dutch: volk

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Old Frisian

Noun

Folk

1. people, folk

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Scots

Alternative forms

• fowk

Noun

Folk (plural Folks)

1. people, folk

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

Folk n.

1. (uncountable) 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)

Declension

Declension of Folk

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Folk	Folket	Folk	Folken
genitive	Folks	Folkets	Folks	Folkens

Compounds

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

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɔlk/

Noun

Folk (plural folken)

1. people, folk