[
UK
/fˈəʊk/
]
[ US /ˈfoʊk/ ]
[ US /ˈfoʊk/ ]
NOUN
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
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people in general (often used in the plural)
folks around here drink moonshine
the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next
they're just country folk -
people descended from a common ancestor
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower - a social division of (usually preliterate) people
How To Use folk In A Sentence
- Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
- Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
- In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
- Difficulties help to forge people into able folk.
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
- Folk remedies and herbal treatments also are common.
- There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns. How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone
- As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
