folk
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(noun) people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" |
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Synonyms: common people |
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Related Words: grass roots, home folks, people, rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff |
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(satellite adjective) (of music) characteristic of rural life |
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Synonyms: country, hillbilly, western |
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(noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people |
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Synonyms: tribe |
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Related Words: phyle, social group |
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(noun) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community |
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Synonyms: ethnic music, folk music |
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Related Words: country and western, country music, folk ballad, folk song, music, polka, schottische, square-dance music |
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(noun) people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Masachusetts since the Mayflower" |
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Synonyms: family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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Related Words: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, dynasty, gens, homefolk, house, line, line of descent, lineage, name, origin, parentage, pedigree, people, stock |
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