FOLK Synonyms

• a social division of (usually preliterate) people

• a federation (as of American Indians)

• (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

• group of people related by blood or marriage

• a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

• a group of people living in a particular local area

• a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common

• common ownership

• a group of nations having common interests

• agreement as to goals

• a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

• (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• the territory occupied by a nation

• the people who live in a nation or country

• an area outside of cities and towns

• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• the common people generally

• a large indefinite quantity

• a large gathering of people

• the common people generally

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

• the people who live in a nation or country

• a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

• (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

• the body of citizens of a state or country

• members of a family line

• the common people generally

• fill with people

• furnish with people

• people in general considered as a whole

• the people who inhabit a territory or state

• a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

• (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

• the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)

• the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

• not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole

• people in general considered as a whole

• a body of people sharing some common interest

• affecting the people or community as a whole

• any competition

• a contest of speed

• people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock

• (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a canal for a current of water

• move hurridly

• compete in a race

• to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• the state of being with someone

• the fashionable elite

• a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community

• being or characteristic of a single thing or person

• a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

• a single organism

• separate and distinct from others of the same kind

• characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing

• concerning one person exclusively

• a person who inhabits a particular place

• living in a particular place

• used of animals that do not migrate

• someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

• a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

• people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

• a social unit living together

• primary social group; parents and children

• a collection of things sharing a common attribute

• people descended from a common ancestor

• a person having kinship with another or others

• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

• a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities