folk ballad vs folk

folk vs folk ballad

folk ballad and folk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
folk ballad	Yes	No	No	No
folk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folk is a hypernym of folk ballad; that is, folk is a word with a broader meaning than folk ballad:

folk ballad: a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
folk: the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

Other hypernyms of folk ballad include song, vocal, ethnic music, folk music.

folk ballad (noun)	folk (noun)
a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture	the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
	people in general (often used in the plural)
	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
	people descended from a common ancestor

Difference between folk ballad and folk

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