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grass roots vs folk

folk vs grass roots

grass roots and folk both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grass roots Yes No No No
folk Yes No No No
As nouns, folk is a hypernym of grass roots; that is, folk is a word with a broader meaning than grass roots:
  • grass roots: the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
  • folk: people in general (often used in the plural)
Other hypernyms of grass roots include common people, folks.
grass roots (noun) folk (noun)
the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
the essential foundation or source people in general (often used in the plural)
a social division of (usually preliterate) people
people descended from a common ancestor
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