Rural vs Folk - What's the difference?
rural | folk |
Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 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.
As an adjective rural
is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.As a noun folk is
people.rural
English
(wikipedia rural)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}
Synonyms
* campestral * landlyAntonyms
* urban * suburbanSee also
* country ----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