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HOMEFOLK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homefolk mean?
• HOMEFOLK (noun)
The noun HOMEFOLK has 1 sense:
1. the people of your home locality (especially your own family)
Familiarity information: HOMEFOLK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The people of your home locality (especially your own family)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
he wrote his homefolk every day
Hypernyms ("homefolk" is a kind of...):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
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