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Meaning of folk

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  folk
      n 1: people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just
           country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the
           common people determine the group character and preserve
           its customs from one generation to the next" [syn: {folk},
           {folks}, {common people}]
      2: a social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn:
         {tribe}, {folk}]
      3: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
         lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: {family},
         {family line}, {folk}, {kinfolk}, {kinsfolk}, {sept},
         {phratry}]
      4: the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an
         expression of the life of people in a community [syn: {folk
         music}, {ethnic music}, {folk}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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