Word Finder - folk

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A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.

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The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

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(plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.

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Folk music.

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People in general.

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Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.

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A particular group of people.

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Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.

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Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.

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Of or related to local building materials and styles.

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Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.

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folk psychology; folk linguistics

These mountaineering folk talked a different language.

The folk songs are the truest and most interesting national literature.

No, no, he's a folk singer.

Isla has been singing folk songs in public since the age of ten.

He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life.

They naturally take their rise among an agricultural folk.

Some traditional music has a history that dates back many, many centuries, but the history of Irish folk music really only begins in the late 18th century, and the music did not really pick up steam until the 19th century.

This is what most people regard Mountain Biking as - a group of folk out having a carry-on and riding some nice trails.

The heavily embossed body conveys the product's heritage by telling an Indian folk story.

A blend of folk, jazz and classical music was very experimental but good.

A man who stood for what he believed to be right, loved by the ordinary folk.

Folk dance groups played an important role in our career.

Hundreds of peasants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly began selling their cattle and moving in whole families toward the southeast.

The narration of the folk tale made it more interesting.

Nearly all Mexican folk dance features an upbeat rhythm and tone.

I'm going to end with one folk carol which immediately struck me.

Many elderly & disabled folk need to cross here, often in electric wheel chairs.

Liza Austin, the leader, revived the group in 1980 and now they perform on the British folk festival circuit.

Even today the indigenous folk express their independent spirit by claiming direct viking descent.

The shows, therefore, and the toys were all very primitive, and would be utterly despised by the young folk now.

The Fen folk are afraid of becoming further alienated; having seen their health care facilities systematically dismembered over the past three years.

Perhaps her greatest influence, however, is her mother, the songwriter and folk diva Chris While.

The force of what he created was so down-to-earth that the appeal was even to many in the traditional folk crowd.

The Wrigley Sisters Scotland UK BBC award winning fiddle, guitar and piano folk duo.

When people think of a car club they often think of somewhat eccentric old folk who live in the past world of motoring.

Their sound is best described as funky electro, didgeridoo, ambient, rhythmic, dance folk.

This has all the credentials of a ' folk etymology ' myth.

This time we were off to the Trowbridge folk festival.

Sometimes the Intermediate Strings work together with the Junior Strings on different sorts of string playing such as folk fiddle and Jazz.

In addition to research, Terry stays involved with classical and baroque flute and has recently ventured into jazz and folk music.

I am about to take the next folk club publicity flyer to our printers.

I guess folk having epics approached from the track to the north.

Why did housing officers from Knowsley Council/Housing Trust move heroin addicts into decent tower blocks populated by elderly folk and decent tenants?

The people who rob or con or harm our old folk should be put in the stocks in Kirkby Town Center.

This Culture Online project includes contributions from curators from museums and galleries and compelling stories from everyday folk using pictures, words and video.

Trawl fishing began in 1882, attracting fisher folk from coastal settlements in Kincardineshire and as far south as Northumberland.

The peasant folk lived in dark, dank cottages with a fire in the middle of the floor.

Head to the main square, where locals, dressed in traditional Canarian costume, perform folk dances.

He had been collecting folk dances with their music (he made recordings very often either on tape or on film ).

Although studying folk music intensively, his work with Vujicsics is not an academic excercise, far from it.

In this interview I have tried to explore the folk music that influenced the Vujicsics Ensemble.

Its boundaries seem to be none exist and can feel operatic at one time and like traditional folk music the next.

Sidmouth is one of the great institutions of British folk music - a week long festival that's been running for over 50 years.

Inspiration comes from his neighbors, teachers, and collecting folk songs in Yugoslavia.

T hey are looking volunteers to add realistic special effects to give folk a real fright on the way round.

The cerebral cortexes of older folk are too hardened up to let such frippery in.

We really have become too gutless to stop folk doing covers, I feel.

In 1404 the legendary Welsh folk hero Owain Glyndwr convened a parliament here during his military campaign for Welsh autonomy.

The Devil's cloven hoof is perhaps one of the most common articles of folk belief.

Modern research has validated long-standing folk medicine practices of using horsetail to mend connective tissue and bone.