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Collocations for "folk"

Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "folk" in context.

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folk

n

the [common, town] folk
are just everyday folk
do not associate with that [type, kind] of folk
what kind of folk will be [there, at the part]?
now this is my kind of folk!
the [town] folk are [friendly, hostile, cautious, hospitable]
[friendly] town folk
informal: my [wife's, husband's, partner's] folks
informal: my folks won't let me [stay, go]
informal: (going over to) my folks' [house, apartment, place]

n as adj

listen to folk music
[contemporary, American] folk music
is in a folk band
a folk art festival
go to a folk [festival, concert]

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'folk' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

dancing - elderly - gallery - honest - jam - myth - populate - queer - song

Forum discussions with the word(s) "folk" in the title:

a representative of Chinese folk songs - English Only forum
Actualise sidhe folk - English Only forum
artifacts from extinct folk cultures - English Only forum
As, like - the same folk music <as, like> that of any other, - English Only forum
attribution sought:"there's nowt so queer as folk" - English Only forum
came from the folk - English Only forum
Chinese traditional folk culture or traditional Chinese folk culture? - English Only forum
dichotomy that exists in terms of treatment from one folk to another - English Only forum
everyday folk - English Only forum
fluttered folk - English Only forum
folk - English Only forum
folk as talk about fighting the Enemy - English Only forum
Folk devil - English Only forum
"folk house" in America and Great Britain - English Only forum
folk music - English Only forum
folk music/country music - English Only forum
Folk saying on 'patience' - English Only forum
Folk song or folk-song? - English Only forum
"Great Folk" - English Only forum
grown keepers of dying folk's curtains - English Only forum
Invented 'n' in Irish folk songs ('bronther') - English Only forum
Irish folk songs - English Only forum
lesser folk - English Only forum
like confusing us lay folk - English Only forum
llanded folk are doomed - English Only forum
narrative folk - English Only forum
Need help with a musicological term (person who finds and writes down folk songs) - English Only forum
on the route home to my folk's house - English Only forum
one of the enduring pieces of folk wisdom was uttered by... - English Only forum
plain folk - English Only forum
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