Folk vs Kin - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
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Race; family; breed; kind.
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
* Francis Bacon
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Kind; sort; manner; way.
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
* 1840 , Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)
As adjectives the difference between folk and kin
is that folk is of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history while kin is related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".As nouns the difference between folk and kin
is that folk is a grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation while kin is race; family; breed; kind.folk
English
Alternative forms
* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
Derived terms
* folk devil * folk etymology * folk hero * folklore * folk medicine * folk memory * folk music * folkster * folksyReferences
kin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kin, kyn, ken, kun, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- You are of kin , and so a friend to their persons.
Derived terms
* akin * kind * kindred * kinfolk * kinship * kinsman * kinswoman * kith and kin * next of kinSee also
* kith * clanExternal links
*Adjective
(-)- It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Riemann)
- If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin .
