landfolk

noun
/ˈlandˌfəʊk/UK/ˈlændˌfoʊk/US

Etymology

Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.

Definitions

  1. The inhabitants of a region, especially if native.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA