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Folk

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Etymology

* As a German surname, variant of Volk (“people, tribe”). * As an English surname, variant of Foulk, related to the noun folk, thus cognate with the above.

Forms

plural
Folks
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