| NOUN | group | folk, folks, common people | people in general (often used in the plural) |
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| group | folk, tribe | a social division of (usually preliterate) people | |
| group | folk, family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry | people descended from a common ancestor | |
| communication | folk, folk music, ethnic music | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community |
| Sounds | fow'k | |
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| Rhymes | artichoke ... yolk: 36 rhymes with owk... | |
| Meaning | People in general (often used in the plural). | |
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| Synonyms | folks, common people | |
| Members | plebeian, pleb | One of the common people |
| Narrower | country people, countryfolk | People raised in or living in a rural environment |
| gentlefolk | People of good family and breeding and high social status | |
| grass roots | The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) | |
| home folk | folks from your own home / home town | |
| rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail | disparaging terms for the common people | |
| Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
| Spanish | gente, plebe, pueblo, vulgo | |
| Catalan | plebs, poble, vulgar | |
| Meaning | A social division of (usually preliterate) people. | |
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| Synonym | tribe | |
| Members | moiety | One of two basic subdivisions of a tribe |
| Narrower | phyle | A tribe of ancient Athenians |
| Broader | social group | People sharing some social relation |
| Spanish | tribu | |
| Catalan | tribu | |
| Meaning | People descended from a common ancestor. | |
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| Synonyms | family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry | |
| Narrower | dynasty | A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
| homefolk | The people of your home locality (especially your own family) | |
| house | aristocratic family line | |
| name, gens | family based on male descent | |
| people | Members of a family line | |
| Broader | lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock | The descendants of one individual |
| Spanish | familia, hermandad, linaje, línea familiar, pariente, parientes | |
| Catalan | família, línia familiar, parents | |
| Meaning | The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community. | |
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| Synonyms | folk music, ethnic music | |
| Narrower | country music, country and western, C and W | A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States |
| folk song, folksong, folk ballad | A song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | |
| gospel, gospel singing | folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response | |
| schottische | music performed for dancing the schottische | |
| square-dance music | music performed for square dancing | |
| Broader | popular music, popular music genre | Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) |
| Spanish | folk música, folk, música étnica, música folklórica, música folk, música tradicional | |
| Catalan | folk, música folk, música tradicional | |
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