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单词 folk
释义 folk
 /fohk/,  n.  
  1. Usually, folks. (used with a pl. v.) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
  2. Often, folks. (used with a pl. v.) people of a specified class or group: country folk; poor folks.
  3. (used with a pl. v.) people as the carriers of culture, esp. as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society: The folk are the bearers of oral tradition.
  4. folks, Informal.
   a. members of one's family; one's relatives: All his folks come from France.
   b. one's parents: Will your folks let you go?
  5.  Archaic.   a people or tribe.
  6. just folks, Informal. (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people: He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks.
  adj.  
  7. of or originating among the common people: folk beliefs; a folk hero.
  8. having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society: folk culture; folk art.
 [bef. 900; ME; OE folc; c. OS, ON folk, OHG folk (G Volk)]
 Syn. 4. kinfolk, kin, relations, people; clan, tribe.
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