I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a folk dance (= typical of the ordinary people who live somewhere )
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This is one of the oldest folk dances in Greece.
a folk hero (= an ordinary person who does something brave and becomes a hero in a particular place )
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Cesar Chavez has folk hero status in the Latino community.
a folk tale (= a traditional story )
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a book of Scottish folk tales
a pop/folk song
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I love all those '60s pop songs.
a rock/pop/jazz/folk festival
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He's appeared at folk festivals all over Europe.
a traditional/folk remedy
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Fish oil has been used as a folk remedy since the eighteenth century.
decent citizens/people/folk etc
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The majority of residents here are decent citizens.
folk dance
folk hero
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Casey Jones is an American folk hero.
folk medicine (= medical treatments that were used by ordinary people, especially in the past )
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Researchers are looking at plants that are commonly used in folk medicine.
folk music
old folk
old folks' home
pop/opera/folk etc singer
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her favourite pop singer
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a famous Italian opera singer
working man/people/folk
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the ordinary working man
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■ ADJECTIVE
old
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I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
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Normally, once these older folk have attended a course they are keen to participate in others.
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There wasn't even a pub any longer and half the cottages were empty, only the old folk left.
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Does he not know that people will actually die, old folk who will turn down the heat without telling anyone?
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Two old folk - we echo in it.
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I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital's geriatric wards, where I sang and played to the old folk .
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The village was crowded. Old folk ambled, fanning themselves with hats or newspapers, slowing down their progress.
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Black oral history died with the old folk .
ordinary
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Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil's empathy with ordinary working folk .
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They looked like two ordinary folk , as they got in his car and left the lot.
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The key was to draw as firm a distinction as possible between the mirza and ordinary folk .
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Needless to say, swing has been enjoying a rebirth lately, with ordinary folk getting into the craze.
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But these are not ordinary folk from middle Britain, the normal protagonists on Esther Rantzen's afternoon programme.
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Only the faded sashes they wore, and the weapons they carried, marked them as anything but ordinary folk fleeing the marauders.
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He admired some of them as determined but ordinary folk .
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Embarrassment is the name of the game in Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch - and ordinary folk are the victims.
poor
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Much easier to turn on poor folk like Gladys Brown, who couldn't defend themselves.
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Packmen and poor folk rode Shank's pony.
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The four pharmaceutical best-sellers are witness to the poor folk who have nothing better to do than watch all-night television.
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Its victims are usually poor folk made poorer by the white elephants their leaders have inflicted on them.
simple
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Luckily for us simple folk the game plot is very straight forward.
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It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance.
traditional
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During the evening, there is traditional folk dancing.
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Tests have shown that about half of the traditional folk remedies of such areas have pharmaceutical potential.
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Say goodbye by joining in an optional evening's excursion and enjoying traditional folk dancing and singing.
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The underlying ethic is that of the traditional folk mythology from which we started out.
young
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I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
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I am initiating, with others, a midweek activity on Friday nights, for church young folk .
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The young folk were emigrating enmasse.
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And the care these young folk give us is fantastic.
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country
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk .
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Sadly, country folk have caught on.
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Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
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Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
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The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk .
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The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
memory
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Both peoples comprise regions with historical boundaries and both had memories , or at least folk memories, of autonomous institutions.
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It is also worth noting that after his death he seems to have remained as a hero in folk memory .
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That is certainly how those years are enshrined in the folk memory of theoretical physicists.
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The witch image, however, does, remain, at least as a folk memory .
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Its destruction and decay may have lodged in folk memory and been Christianised into the version we have today.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
travelling people/folk
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I get the impression the indigenous locals know the travelling people keep disappearing to have some blow, and resent it.
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In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.
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There are areas that are perfectly acceptable to the travelling people who use York.
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His parents were hard-working country folk .
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Most folk around here are pretty friendly.
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Stella's ambition is to get a job working with old folk .
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The young folk need to have a place where they can go in the evenings.
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As with folk , it's a natural process, simply reflective.
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But there's 100 folk after every job.
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I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
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The radio folk have some homework to do between now and Thursday.
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We want to see beautiful people we can be envious of, not ordinary folk who remind us of ourselves.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
art
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Yes, it was tacky, but some of those pictures were folk art .
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These instruments not only represent a form of folk art but make wonderful accessories.
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On these less-than-desirable pieces of what some think is folk art , nothing is spelled out.
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Hamilton, who was a great student of folk art , was driving us in the school van.
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Its unique folk art has been featured by the Smithsonian Museums and other prominent art galleries throughout the U.S.
dance
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The event will be followed by a Pan-Orthodox folk dance celebration.
hero
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Just the kind of marginal folk hero they would go and use as a mascot.
medicine
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And as in folk medicine generally, if you believe it will help, it probably will.
music
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At age 5, Jewel began performing in clubs as part of a folk music trio with her parents.
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If you hear the mandolin today, it's usually in bluegrass or Neapolitan folk music .
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Acoustic and folk music fans are familiar with her 20-year span of live performance and recorded works.
singer
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I grew up around folk singers , people who sang in little bars.
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According to her bio, fast-rising folk singer Dar Williams is on a constant search for truth and beauty.
song
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Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs .
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He came to the university, and we were supposed to sing a folk song in Tagalog.
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They embodied the sun in stylized forms in their jewelry and praised it in folk songs and myths.
tale
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But myths, folk tales , legends and, yes, religious stories are different.
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An ancient folk tale , it became the source of a number of legends and literary adaptations.
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Twilight Tales is a collection of spooky legends and folk tales passed through generations in the Southwest.
wisdom
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Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
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Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
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Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Spanish folk songs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An ancient folk tale, it became the source of a number of legends and literary adaptations.
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He was discovered again during the folk boom that came just after his death in 1961.
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It has a charming folk cast to it.
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Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
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Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs.
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The second model is what the researchers call the gay folk construction of risk.