folks

Noun

• your parents
  • "he wrote to his folks every day"
• people in general (often used in the plural)
  • "folks around here drink moonshine"
• people in general (often used in the plural)
  • "folks around here drink moonshine"
• a social division of (usually preliterate) people
• people descended from a common ancestor
• the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
• The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
• People in general; everybody or anybody.
• The police.
• plural of folk
• Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.

Examples

• Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays.
• My folks visit us at Christmas.

Synonyms

common people, ethnic music, family, family line, folk, folk music, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, tribe

Related Words

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