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landfolk

UK/ˈlandˌfəʊk/US/ˈlændˌfoʊk/

landfolk noun: the inhabitants of a region, especially if native.

Noun

landfolk (uncountable)

  1. (literary, uncommon) The inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
    • […]and I should be happy to know that my homely strains might have at all refined it among the landfolk of my own county, or any other[…]1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection, 2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iii
    • When the landfolk of Galway converse with a stranger, / softly the men speak, more softly the women, / light words on their lips, and an accent that sings.1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited

Origin of landfolk

Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.

Questions about landfolk

What does landfolk mean?
Landfolk means the inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
What part of speech is landfolk?
Landfolk is a noun.
How do you pronounce landfolk?
Landfolk is pronounced /ˈlandˌfəʊk/ (UK).

Words near landfolk in the dictionary

  1. landfills
  2. landfish
  3. landfishes
  4. landflood
  5. landfloods
  6. landfolk
  7. landforce
  8. landforces
  9. Landford
  10. landform
  11. landforms

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