What does home folk mean?

home folk means "folks from your own home town".

Is home folk a common word?

home folk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Home folk — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
folks from your own home town
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What does home folk mean?: home folk means "folks from your own home town".
Is home folk a common word?: home folk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 home folk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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