landfolk

English

Etymology

Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlandˌfəʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌfoʊk/

Noun

landfolk (uncountable)

1. (literary) The inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
   • 1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iii:

     […] and I should be happy to know that my homely strains might have at all refined it among the landfolk of my own county, or any other […]

   • 1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited:

     When the landfolk of Galway converse with a stranger, / softly the men speak, more softly the women, / light words on their lips, and an accent that sings.

   • 1963, Pearl Buck, The Living Reed, New York: John Day Co., →OCLC:

     The landfolk of the region had that day brought to the revolutionary court of judgment a young man of handsome and frank countenance.

Anagrams

• folkland