folk

[folk]

Folk are regular people. Country folk can be suspicious of fancy city people, while city folk tend to act a little snobby toward country dwellers.

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Noun
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

Noun
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"

Noun
people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

Noun
a social division of (usually preliterate) people


n. collect. & pl.
Alt. of Folks


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Usage Examples

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

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