|1.||[ noun ] 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"
|Related terms:||people home_folks grass_roots rabble plebeian|
|2.||[ noun ] (sociology) a social division of (usually preliterate) people|
|Related terms:||social_group phyle moiety|
|3.||[ noun ] people descended from a common ancestor|
|Synonyms:||family sept kinsfolk kinfolk phratry family_line|
"his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
|Related terms:||lineage house name people dynasty homefolk|
|4.||[ adjective ] (of music) characteristic of rural life|
|Synonyms:||hillbilly western country|
|5.||[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 4855|
|6.||[ noun ] (music,fine art) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community|
|Related terms:||music popular_music polka gospel schottische square-dance_music country_music folk_song|