folk vs grass roots

grass roots vs folk

folk and grass roots both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
folk	Yes	No	No	No
grass roots	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, grass roots is a hyponym of folk; that is, grass roots is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than folk:

folk: people in general (often used in the plural)
grass roots: the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

Other hyponyms of folk include country people, countryfolk, gentlefolk, home folk, rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff.

folk (noun)	grass roots (noun)
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community	the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
people in general (often used in the plural)	the essential foundation or source
a social division of (usually preliterate) people
people descended from a common ancestor

Difference between folk and grass roots

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