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Meaning of "workfolk" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORKFOLK

workfolk  [ˈwɜːkˌfəʊk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORKFOLK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Workfolk is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WORKFOLK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of workfolk in the English dictionary

The definition of workfolk in the dictionary is working people, esp labourers on a farm.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WORKFOLK


fisherfolk
ˈfɪʃəˌfəʊk
folk
fəʊk
gentlefolk
ˈdʒɛntəlˌfəʊk
hillfolk
ˈhɪlˌfəʊk
kinfolk
ˈkɪnˌfəʊk
kinsfolk
ˈkɪnzˌfəʊk
menfolk
ˈmɛnˌfəʊk
merfolk
ˈmɜːfəʊk
seafolk
ˈsiːˌfəʊk
townsfolk
ˈtaʊnzfəʊk
tradesfolk
ˈtreɪdzˌfəʊk
womenfolk
ˈwɪmɪnˌfəʊk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORKFOLK

worker participation
worker-priest
worker´s compensation
workerist
workerless
workers´ cooperative
Workers´ Educational Association
workfare
workfellow
workflow
workfolks
workforce
workful
workgirl
workgroup
workhorse
workhour
workhouse
working
working bee

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORKFOLK

Beaker folk
country folk
egg yolk
Herrenvolk
holk
little folk
Norfolk
Polk
Suffolk
travelling folk
volk
yolk

Synonyms and antonyms of workfolk in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «workfolk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORKFOLK

Find out the translation of workfolk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of workfolk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «workfolk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

workfolk
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

workfolk
570 millions of speakers

English

workfolk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

workfolk
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

workfolk
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

workfolk
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

workfolk
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কৃর্ষিমজুর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

workfolk
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pekerja kerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

workfolk
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

workfolk
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

workfolk
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyambut damel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

workfolk
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

workfolk
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यक्षेत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

workfolk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

workfolk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

workfolk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

workfolk
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

workfolk
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

workfolk
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

workfolk
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

workfolk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

workfolk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of workfolk

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKFOLK»

The term «workfolk» is normally little used and occupies the 139.644 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKFOLK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «workfolk» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «workfolk» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about workfolk

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKFOLK»

Discover the use of workfolk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to workfolk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism
The. Sovereignty. of. the. Subject. and. the. World. of. the. Workfolk. One of the major means of production for Hardy's writing was what I have called (adopting his own phrase) the ideology of the thinking world, that is, those harmonizing ...
George Wotton, 1985
2
The Novels of Thomas Hardy as a Product of Nineteenth ...
Table 2: Hardy's Use of “Workfolk” in the Wessex Edition Under the Greenwood Tree 1 Mrs Dewy accuses her husband of talking “in such a work-folk way”. (p. 59 ) Far from the Madding Crowd 2 Cainy Ball exclaims: “We workfolk shall have ...
Birgit Plietzsch, 2004
3
Thomas Hardy
His study takes as its starting-point the centrality of work in Hardy's fiction and develops an argument about the crucial function of his workfolk: ... their presence is constitutive because all Hardy's characters exist in relation to the experiential ...
Geoffrey Harvey, 2003
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Eunoia
Christian Bök. Scots from hogtowns or cowtowns work from cockcrow to moondown – to chop down woodlots, to plow down cornrows. Folks who work from morn to noon throw down slop to hogs or corn to sows. Most workfolk who sow crops of ...
Christian Bök, 2008
5
Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain
It is also true that the proprietor's elder brother, Joseph Rylands (1796– 1853), as manager ofthe Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, was denounced in 1853 by his own workfolk during a strike as a 'tyrant'. It should, however, be borne in mind  ...
David Jeremy, 2006
6
Property-Preserving Petri Net Process Algebra in Software ...
[AAL (1997)] W. M. P. van der Aalst. “Verification of workfolk nets”. ICATPN 1997, LNCS 1248, Springer-Verlag, 1997, pp. 407G426. [AAL (1998)] W. M. P. van der Aalst. “The application of Petri nets to workfolk management”. Journal of Circuits  ...
Hejiao Huang, Li Jiao, To-Yat Cheung, 2012
7
Victorian and Edwardian Dorset
Forexample, ifyouask one of the workfolk (they usedalways tobe called “workfolk” hereabout; “labourers”is an importedword)the names of surrounding hills, streams, the character and circumstances of people buried in particular graves, at what ...
Simon Rae, 2013
8
The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries
It summoned representatives of the clothiers to the capital, and issued a circular letter to the Justices of the clothing counties enjoining them to call the clothiers together and require them to keep their workfolk in employment. The clothiers were ...
Ephraim Lipson, 1965
9
Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social ...
... of information, the names, stories, and relics of one place being speedily forgotten under the incoming facts of the next. For example, if you ask one of the workfolk (they used always to be called " workfolk " hereabout ; " labourers " is an  ...
H. Rider Haggard, 2011
10
The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928
For example, if you ask one of the workfolk (they always used to be called ' workfolk' hereabout—'labourers' is an imported word) the names of surrounding hills, streams; the character and circumstances of people buried in particular graves; ...
Florence Emily Hardy, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORKFOLK»

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DiScover: Enablers
We're perched on a picnic bench, Brick Lane, London; the evening's revellers and simple workfolk weaving their way home punctuate the quiet about us. «Drowned In Sound, Oct 07»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Workfolk [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/workfolk>. May 2024 ».
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