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/fəʊk/ · noun
(countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants..
We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!
The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
There were a lot of folk in the streets.
Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
I need to call my folks back home.
folk psychology; folk linguistics
Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
Use folk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Folk means (countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants..
Common synonyms include phratry, tribe, kinfolk, family.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!
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