folks

/foʊks/

/fəʊks/

Definitions of folks

1. noun

   people in general (often used in the plural)
   synonyms: common people, folk

   types:

   country people, countryfolk

   people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics

   gentlefolk

   people of good family and breeding and high social status

   grass roots

   the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

   home folk

   folks from your own home town

   rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff

   disparaging terms for the common people

   scum, trash

   worthless people

   type of:

   people

   (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
2. noun

   your parents
   “he wrote to his folks every day”

   type of:

   clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe

   group of people related by blood or marriage