A collective term of address which implies that the company is included in the speaker’s intimate circle of friends, or is part of his family. In the USA in the nineteenth cen tury it could also imply that the people so addressed were eminently...

Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of) the people" or "our people" (as opposed to different clans, tribes, or nations). The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages. Folk may be a Germanic root that is unique to...