Folk
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation. The inhabitants of a region especially the native inhabitants. One's relatives especially one's parents. Folk music. People in general. A particular group of people.
Example sentence: That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Family
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Suitable for children and adults.Conservative, traditonal.Homosexual.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.A kin, tribe; also called extended family.A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.A group of people who live together.A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group.Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Example sentence: The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.