folk singer

What does folk singer mean?

folk singer means "a singer of folk songs".

What is another word for folk singer?

Close synonyms include jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folk singer a common word?

folk singer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for folk singer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.