"good folk" meaning in English

See good folk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: the good folk [canonical, plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p|def=1}} the good folk pl (plural only)
  1. (colloquial, UK) Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures. Tags: UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only Synonyms: good people
    Sense id: en-good_folk-en-noun-IhvadALx Categories (other): British English, English pluralia tantum

Download JSON data for good folk meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the good folk",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the good folk pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures."
      ],
      "id": "en-good_folk-en-noun-IhvadALx",
      "links": [
        [
          "Fairies",
          "fairy"
        ],
        [
          "brownie",
          "brownie"
        ],
        [
          "pixie",
          "pixie"
        ],
        [
          "magical",
          "magical"
        ],
        [
          "humanoid",
          "humanoid"
        ],
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, UK) Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "good people"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "good folk"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the good folk",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the good folk pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Fairies",
          "fairy"
        ],
        [
          "brownie",
          "brownie"
        ],
        [
          "pixie",
          "pixie"
        ],
        [
          "magical",
          "magical"
        ],
        [
          "humanoid",
          "humanoid"
        ],
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, UK) Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "good people"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "good folk"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.