Word a Day
folk
What does folk mean?
folk (noun): people in general.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use folk in a sentence?
- They were plain folk. (Tatoeba sentence #5752366 by CM, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce folk?
/foʊk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does folk come from?
From Middle English folk, from Old English folc.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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