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Meanings of folk in English
Portuguese
música folclórica Catalan
música folk 
The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community.
Synonyms
Examples for "family"
Examples for "family"
1
However, one answer I struggle to see is with my family situation.
2
New Plymouth Public Health Committee:Influenza; instructions to volunteer nurses or family attendants.
3
Today was a long time coming for many victims and their family.
4
You want to visit my house and my 'family,' well and good.
5
But of course we needed money to support the family, he said.
1
The new men can take their vows in the sept as easily.
2
The moratorium is valid until Sept 30, it said in a statement.
3
Sept 2003 - OM London Exchange merges with the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
4
She is currently working on her album due for release Sept 2015.
5
Sept 15 - Volvo Car CEO says Geely denied preparing a bid.
1
At that moment one of the kinsfolk suddenly brought out the light.
2
He will make us the kinsfolk of all things bright and beautiful.
3
Borrow was not free to visit his kinsfolk until the following Christmas.
4
But the kinsfolk on the father's side would not hear of it.
5
Thou hast been hard to thy kinsfolk, and cruel to thy family.
1
The forces of each phratry went out to war as separate divisions.
2
Unlike the Grecian phratry and the Roman curia, it had no official head.
3
But among the Euahlayi the phratry names mean 'light blood' and 'dark blood.'
4
The phratry among the Iroquois was partly for social and partly for religious objects.
5
Associated with these class names are the following phratry names:
1
Being afraid of color: I meet fearful kinky kinfolk everywhere I go.
2
Hungary was forced to risk its ethnic kinfolk in Serbia's Vojvodina region.
3
For good or ill, my kinfolk and neighbors are far from here.
4
A few poor souls had returned to search for friends or kinfolk.
5
He lacked family, especially kinfolk who could pull strings in business or politics.
1
But guess who the mother's family line goes back to? Brent asked him.
2
Should she toe the family line, or tell the police what she knew?
3
The family line is considered to be thus more purely preserved.
4
He is, then, in the family line, notwithstanding his innocent looks?
5
Whisper came from outside the family line and was taken into the royal ranks.
Usage of folk in English
1
Of course, some folk might want to adopt only healthy baby critters.
2
Here was solitude indeed; a dozen neighbours in all, simple labouring folk:
3
New summer folk, he says, should bring their own help with them.
4
Can you imagine what the good folk of Mystique would have said?
5
Particular interests are looked to, not the general well-being of the folk.
6
In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-
7
They are dangerous people, and wise folk steer well clear of them.
8
They've a right to live, same as other folk,' he said loudly.
9
Some folk think a stranger can't hardly know the time of day.
10
The good folk of Melbourne seem to think this is something special.
11
And where will the good folk from Sport New Zealand be then?
12
Things they do as a matter of course would chill normal folk.
13
Many fine folk were spitting feathers at Saturday's result, writes Killian Doyle.
14
However, if folk want to boo players, then they're more than entitled.
15
Simple folk avoided speaking of the place save in a hushed whisper.
16
However, his lasting contribution to the Irish folk canon occasionally went unheralded.
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Folk across language varieties
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New Zealand
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United Kingdom
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