Folk - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Public, Blood, Breed, Brood, Citizenry, Clan, Class, Commonwealth, Community, Constituency, Conventional, Customary, Deme, Established, Estate, Everybody, Everyman

Folk can refer to a number of different things:

It can be short for folk music,
or, for folksong,
or, for folklore;
it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples;
it might even be a calque on German Volk, a concept that featured most notably in the ideology of Nazism.

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