Folk vs. People

Folkadjective

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.

Folkadjective

Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.

Folkadjective

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.

Folkadjective

Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.

Folknoun

(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.

Folknoun

The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

Folknoun

One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.

Folknoun

(music) Folk music.

Folknoun

(plural only) People in general.

Folknoun

(plural only) A particular group of people.

Folk

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

Folk

People in general, or a separate class of people; - generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.

Folk

The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.

Folknoun

people in general;

Folknoun

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

Folknoun

people descended from a common ancestor;

Folknoun

the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

Peoplenoun

Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

Peoplenoun

(countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.

Peoplenoun

A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

Peoplenoun

One's colleagues or employees.

Peoplenoun

A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

Peoplenoun

The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

Peoplenoun

plural of person.

Peopleverb

(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Peopleverb

(intransitive) To become populous or populated.

Peopleverb

(transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

Peoplenoun

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

Peoplenoun

Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; - sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.

Peoplenoun

The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.

Peoplenoun

One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

Peopleverb

To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Peoplenoun

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

Peoplenoun

the body of citizens of a state or country;

Peoplenoun

the common people generally;

Peoplenoun

members of a family line;

Peopleverb

fill with people or supply with inhabitants;

Peopleverb

make one's home or live in;

Peoplenoun

human beings in general or considered collectively

Peoplenoun

the citizens of a country, especially when considered in relation to those who govern them

Peoplenoun

the members of a society without special rank or position

Peoplenoun

the state prosecution in a trial

Peoplenoun

the members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group

Peoplenoun

the supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority

Peoplenoun

one's parents or relatives

Peopleverb

(of a group of people) inhabit (a place)

Peopleverb

fill or be present in (a place or domain)

Peopleverb

fill (a place) with inhabitants

People

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as is the case with an ethnic group, nation or the public of a polity.