Other Definitions
folk (enc)
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Folk| Noun | 1. | folk - 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"people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" grass roots - the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) | | | 2. | folk - a social division of (usually preliterate) peoplemoiety - one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe phyle - a tribe of ancient Athenians | | | 3. | folk - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day" house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York" dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, blood, parentage, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" | | | 4. | folk - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a communityschottische - music performed for dancing the schottische gospel singing, gospel - a genre of a capella 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) | |
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