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folker

folker noun: a performer of folk music.

Noun

folker (plural folkers)

  1. A performer of folk music.
    • BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Monday) This 1960s protest folker and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” and maybe even “Cod’ine,” which became a garage-rock standard.2007 June 15, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times
    • ...Scotland's finest modern folkers King Creosote and James Yorkston...2007, David Else, Great Britain, page 701

Proper noun capitalized: Folker

Folker (plural Folkers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of folker

Noun
pluralfolkers
Proper noun
pluralFolkers

Origin of folker

From folk + -er.

Variant of Fulcher or an Americanized spelling of German Volker.

Questions about folker

What does folker mean?
Folker means a performer of folk music.
What part of speech is folker?
Folker can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of folker?
The plural of folker is folkers.

Words near folker in the dictionary

  1. folkcraft
  2. folkcrafts
  3. folkdance
  4. folkdances
  5. folkdom
  6. folker
  7. folkers
  8. Folkerses
  9. Folkerts
  10. Folkertses
  11. Folkestone

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