folc

Meaning

1. the people, especially the common people

   Lēodhatan frēoġaþ hīe selfe, ac hīe ġeþēowiaþ þæt folc.

   Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

2. a people, nation, or tribe

   Þæt sixte wīte wæs, þæt mislīċe ḡeswel and blǣdran asprungon on heora līchaman on eallum his folce.

   The sixth plague was that various swellings and pustules sprung up on the bodies of all of his people.

   Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

3. crowd

4. the public

   Hīe sæġdon þām folce þæt heora godu him wǣren ierru, tō þȳ þæt hīe him þā ġīet swīðor blēoten þonne hīe ǣr dydon.

   They told the public that their gods were angry at them, so they would sacrifice to them even more than they had before.

   late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans

5. (plural)(singular)people (multiple individuals)

6. military, army; troop

7. popular

8. public, common

9. country, rural

Declension