Usually means: People sharing common culture, traditions.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word folk:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. folk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. folk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. folk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. folk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Folk, folk: Wordnik
  7. folk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Folk, folk: Wiktionary
  9. folk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. folk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. folk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Folk, folk: Dictionary.com
  13. folk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. folk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Folk (disambiguation), Folk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Folk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. folk: Rhymezone
  18. folk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. folk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Folk, Folk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. folk: Free Dictionary
  22. folk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. folk: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Folk (music), folk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOLK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. folk: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See folking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
noun:  (collective plural) People, persons.
noun:  (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
adjective:  (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
adjective:  Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (music) Short for folk music. [Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.]

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