Synonyms for FOLK
foʊkfolk

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. folk, folks, common peoplenoun

   people in general (often used in the plural)

   "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

   Synonyms:
   common people, kinsfolk, tribe, sept, family line, kinfolk, folk music, phratry, ethnic music, folk, folks, family

2. tribe, folknoun

   a social division of (usually preliterate) people

   Synonyms:
   common people, kinfolk, kindred, family line, clan, kinsfolk, kin group, family, sept, folks, tribe, folk, kinship group, folk music, federation of tribes, kin, phratry, ethnic music

3. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratrynoun

   people descended from a common ancestor

   "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

   Synonyms:
   kinsperson, mob, crime syndicate, kinfolk, menage, family line, family unit, ethnic music, class, home, category, kinsfolk, family, folks, tribe, common people, folk, household, fellowship, sept, folk music, kin, phratry, house, syndicate

4. folk music, ethnic music, folknoun

   the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

   Synonyms:
   common people, ethnic music, tribe, kinsfolk, folk music, kinfolk, sept, phratry, family line, folks, folk, family

Matched Categories

1. • Lineage
   • People
   • Popular Music
   • Social Group

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "folk":

   folklore, popular, civil, people, populaires, populaire, traditional

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How to use FOLK in a sentence?

1. Bob Kendrick:

   When Jackie Robinson stepped on the field as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, for us Black folk, it was our Neil Armstrong landing on the moon.

2. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

3. Roger McGuinn:

   I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

4. Florence Pugh:

   I know that part of being in the spotlight is that people might invade your privacy and have opinions on it, but it's bizarre that normal folk are allowed to display such hate and opinions on a part of my life that I'm not putting out there, it's a strange side of fame that you're allowed to be torn apart by thousands of people even though you didn't put that piece of you out there.

5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

   The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.