Synonyms for Folk
foʊkfolk

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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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1. Charlie Hunnam:

   The level of nudity that I do now, which is taking my shirt off, doesn’t bother me at all. But I have done full frontal before, i did full frontal when I was 18 on the TV show 'Queer as Folk.' But because I was playing a 15-year-old character, the censorship people wouldn’t allow us to put it on TV.

2. 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.

3. Henry Louis Mencken:

   The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

4. Jackson Browne:

   When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

5. Roger McGuinn:

   That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.