- folk, common people - people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
--1 is a kind of people
--1 has members: plebeian, pleb
--1 has particulars:grass roots; home folks; rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail - tribe, folk - a social division of (usually preliterate) people
--2 is a kind of social group
--2 has members: moiety
--2 has particulars: phyle - family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
--3 is a kind of lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
--3 has particulars: people; homefolk; house; dynasty; name, gens - folk music, ethnic music, folk - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
--4 is a kind of popular music, popular music genre
--4 has particulars:folk song, folksong, folk ballad; schottische; country music, country and western, C and W; gospel, gospel singing; square-dance music