folknoun
uk/fəʊk/us/foʊk/folk noun (PEOPLE)
B2 [ plural ] mainly UK US usually folks people, especially those of a particular group or type:
[ as form of address ] informal used when speaking informally to a group of people:
B2 someone's parents:
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- Can I get you folks some drinks?
- The folk around here are unhappy about the proposed motorway.
- The law is designed to protect folk like us.
- Can the folks at the back hear me?
- There are a lot of old folk in the village.
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People in general
- beggar
- bird
- body
- breed
- bugger
- coot
- creature
- devil
- man
- mankind
- number
- party
- peeps
- person
- quarter
- rogue
- sort
- soul
- stiff
- the human race
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folk noun (MUSIC)
B1 [ U ] modern music and songs that are written in a style similar to that of traditional music:
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Folk & ethnic music
- bluegrass
- country
- country and western
- country music
- folk rock
- folk song
- raga
- skiffle
folkadjective [ before noun ]
uk/fəʊk/us/foʊk/traditional to or typical of a particular group or country, especially one where people mainly live in the countryside, and usually passed on from parents to their children over a long period of time:
B1 Folk art expresses something about the lives and feelings of ordinary people in a particular group or country, especially those living in the countryside:
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Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- fashion
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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