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folk
  1. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  2. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  3. (folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
  4. (music) Folk music.
  5. (plural only) People in general.
  6. (plural only) A particular group of people.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “I might be wrong, but folk of my generation are probably Apple's prime audience.”
      “My folk come from the eastern forests, way south of here.”
      “Sided with flashy aluminum, these constructions provided cheap accommodation for working-class folk.”
folks
  1. plural of folk
  2. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
  3. (US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
  4. (US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “I'll have to ask my folks if I can go to the party tonight.”
      “On that trip, I had driven from Toronto back to Red River Falls to visit my folks.”
      “Of course, one may ask if these last lines were a coda tacked on to the end of the poem, inserted to please the censors and to appease the folks back home.”
folkland
  1. (law, obsolete, Britain) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In Bombay he is Chandra to Elspeth, Robert to Reverend Macfarlane, and Pretty Bobby to tawdry women around the Folkland.”
folklorism
  1. Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created.
folklife
  1. Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He also met some of the major folklore and folklife Scandinavian scholars of the day including C. W. von Sydow and Sigurd Erixon.”
      “In this essay, folklore, folklife, and folk culture are used more or less interchangeably.”
      “I was taking notes like an anthropologist about the strange folklife of the office.”
folklore
  1. The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Witches and demons, according to traditional folklore, were noted for their inability to weep.”
      “The monomyth has become a very important theme in philosophy and in the study of folklore, bringing together many cultures and many worlds.”
      “According to German folklore, all humans, birds, and beasts have a spirit double, invisible but identical to the living individual.”
folks
  1. (California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I'll have to ask my folks if I can go to the party tonight.”
      “On that trip, I had driven from Toronto back to Red River Falls to visit my folks.”
      “Of course, one may ask if these last lines were a coda tacked on to the end of the poem, inserted to please the censors and to appease the folks back home.”
folkloristics
  1. The formal academic study of folklore.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Feminist folkloristics, as developed in the United States and Canada, understands gender as a fundamentally sociocultural construct.”
      “A major component of folkloristics is the study of society and culture through literary analysis.”
      “Congress in conjunction with the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976, folkloristics in the United States came of age.”
folklorist
  1. A person who studies or collects folklore
  2. Examples:
    1. “In 1935, she told a folklorist a story of the legendary outlaw's boldness and daring.”
      “He's an unwitting folklorist, a collector and expounder of hipster philosophy, barroom trivia, and pseudoscience.”
      “The folklorist is not unnaturally jealous of what, in some degree, looks like Folk-Lore.”
folkcraft
folkloricness
  1. (rare) The quality of being folkloric.
folkster
folklorists
  1. plural of folklorist
  2. Examples:
    1. “He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods.”
      “Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts.”
      “One final matter is worth mentioning, and this is the acid comments about folklore and folklorists in Alice's diaries.”
folkcrafts
  1. plural of folkcraft
folklives
  1. plural of folklife
folksters
  1. plural of folkster
folklands
  1. plural of folkland
folklores
  1. plural of folklore
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This has given rise to fears whether the hillock, with many folklores about it, would soon vanish from Muttara.”
      “Some fishermen follow fishing folklores which claim that fish feeding patterns are influenced by the position of the sun and the moon.”
      “Other attractions include folklores from regional states, various musical bands and Shadow Play.”
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