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Word entry · 4 letters

folk

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"Ordinary people"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /fəʊk/Part of speech nounSorted fkloStarts with FEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

Word origin

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

Used in a sentence

  • The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
  • We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!
  • There were a lot of folk in the streets.

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