Dictionary entry details
• FOLK (noun)
Meaning:
People in general (often used in the plural)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
common people; folk; folks
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("folk" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "folk"):
pleb; plebeian (one of the common people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk"):
rabble; ragtag; ragtag and bobtail; riffraff (disparaging terms for the common people)
home folk (folks from your own home town)
grass roots (the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity))
gentlefolk (people of good family and breeding and high social status)
country people; countryfolk (people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics)
Meaning:
A social division of (usually preliterate) people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
tribe; folk
Hypernyms ("folk" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "folk"):
moiety (one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk"):
phyle (a tribe of ancient Athenians)
Meaning:
People descended from a common ancestor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
phratry; kinsfolk; kinfolk; family line; sept; folk; family
Context example:
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Hypernyms ("folk" is a kind of...):
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk"):
people (members of a family line)
homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))
house (aristocratic family line)
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
gens; name (family based on male descent)
Meaning:
The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ethnic music; folk music; folk
Hypernyms ("folk" is a kind of...):
popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk"):
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)
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; gospel singing (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)
