Crowd and Folk

Crowd

Crowd noun - A great number of persons or creatures massed together.

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

Nearby Words: crowded, crowding

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

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

old	old crowd	old folk
good	good crowd	good folk
typical	typical crowd	typical folk
common	common crowd	common folk
Other adjectives: big, black, young, happy, peaceful, religious, random, older, younger.

Doctor Who, during episode "The End of the World", has the Ninth Doctor return to modern-day Earth and stand in a crowd of bustling city folk, lamenting the destruction of Gallifrey at the end of the Time War.

Source: Alone in a Crowd
Unfortunately for him, simple small-town folk tend to appreciate popular crowd-pleasers like Willy Wonka and Life With Father far more than listening to his drawn-out soliloquies and one-man shows.

Source: Classically Trained Extra
On the last night before he's set to meet his destiny, before a cheering crowd of medieval folk he rides a tank into an arena, while wearing Cool Shades and playing an electric guitar!

Source: Creator / Peter Capaldi

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