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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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folk; folks


folk; folks is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

[2] People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.] In winter`s tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. Shak.

[3] The persons of one`s own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] Bartlett. Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.


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