Class and Folk

Class

Class noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.

Usage example: a politician who appeals to people of every class

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Folk and class are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Folk" instead a noun "Class".

Folk noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.

Usage example: the working-class folk with no airs or pretentions

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Class and folk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Class" instead a noun "Folk".

old	old class	old folk
good	good class	good folk
high	high class	high folk
pure	pure class	pure folk
Other adjectives: normal, common, certain, original, noble, single, heavy, powerful, wealthy.

Korean folklore has a class of supernatural beings called dok'aebis, who have unusually many similarities with the Fair Folk as shown in European folklore.

Source: The Fair Folk
CSU (Christian Social Union): The Bavarian lite version of the CDU which is pretty similar, but actually backward and conservative, to appease the wealthy upper class toffs and old Catholic rural folk inhabiting the state.

Source: Political Stereotype
A folk etymology of the term is that it comes from everything they say (in their clipped, nasal upper-class accents) sounding like "Rah rah rah".

Source: Useful Notes / British English

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