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folk dance
  • n  a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)
  • v  perform a folk-dance
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folate
  • n  a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction
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folk
  • n  people in general (often used in the plural)
    they're just country folk
    folks around here drink moonshine
  • n  a social division of (usually preliterate) people
  • n  people descended from a common ancestor
  • n  the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
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fold
  • n  an angular or rounded shape made by folding
    a fold in the napkin
  • n  a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
  • n  a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
  • n  a group of sheep or goats
  • n  a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
  • n  a pen for sheep
  • n  the act of folding
    he gave the napkins a double fold
  • v  bend or lay so that one part covers the other
    fold up the newspaper
  • v  incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
  • v  cease to operate or cause to cease operating
  • v  confine in a fold, like sheep
  • v  become folded or folded up
    The bed folds in a jiffy
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