folk music
folk music noun: any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.
Noun
folk music (usually uncountable, plural folk musics)
- Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.
- Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms.
folk music meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
folk music in Hindi
- music originating from a specific region
- लोक संगीत lok saṅgīt
folk music in Tamil
- மக்கள் இசை
folk music in Urdu
- music originating from a specific region
- لوک مُوسِیقِی lok mūsīqī
folk music in Kannada
- ಜಾನಪದ ಸಂಗೀತ
More languagesFewer languages
- folk music in Tagalog
- musikang bayan
- folk music in Arabic
- مُوسِيقَى فُلْكْلُورِيَّة mūsīqā fulklūriyya
- folk music in Malay
- lagu rakyat
- folk music in Indonesian
- lagu rakyat
- folk music in Thai
- ดนตรีโฟล์ก
- folk music in Vietnamese
- dân ca, nhạc dân gian, âm nhạc dân gian
Forms of folk music
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Questions about folk music
- What does folk music mean?
- Folk music means any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.
- What is folk music in Hindi?
- Folk music in Hindi is लोक संगीत (lok saṅgīt). See Folk music meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is folk music?
- Folk music is a noun.
- What is the plural of folk music?
- The plural of folk music is folk musics.
Words near folk music in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: folk music (page history and authors); folk music (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); folk music (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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