volk

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noun

The Afrikaner people.

OriginAfrikaans volk →
Less commonScrabble 11
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Meanings

volk1

nounvolk pl (plural only)
  1. South Africapluralplural onlyThe Afrikaner people.

    The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.

    2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 22

volk2

nounvolk pl (plural only)
  1. alternativedialectalobsoletepluralplural onlyAlternative form of folk.

    Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […]

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2
    1 more example

    No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

    1912, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman […] (The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse), Wessex edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 21

Volk3

proper noun
  1. A surname.

Origin

volk · noun

  1. Afrikaansvolk
  2. Englishvolk

Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.

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volk · noun

From Middle English volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.

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APA

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MLA

“volk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/volk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “volk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/volk.

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