folk - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• ethnic music
• folk
• folk music

More generic

• popular music
• popular music genre

More specific

• C and W
• country and western
• country music
• folk ballad
• folk song
• folksong
• gospel
• gospel singing
• schottische
• square-dance music

Noun

people in general (often used in the plural)

Synonyms

• common people
• folk
• folks

More generic

• people

More specific

• country people
• countryfolk
• gentlefolk
• grass roots
• home folk
• rabble
• ragtag
• ragtag and bobtail
• riffraff

Related

• pleb
• plebeian

Noun

people descended from a common ancestor

Synonyms

• family
• family line
• folk
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• phratry
• sept

More generic

• ancestry
• blood
• blood line
• bloodline
• descent
• line
• line of descent
• lineage
• origin
• parentage
• pedigree
• stemma
• stock

More specific

• dynasty
• gens
• homefolk
• house
• name
• people

Noun

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

Synonyms

• folk
• tribe

More generic

• social group

More specific

• phyle

Related

• moiety

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