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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun folks has 2 senses
- folks(n = noun.group) - your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day" is a kind of clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe
- folks(n = noun.group) common people, folk - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" is a kind of people
has particulars: country people, countryfolk, gentlefolk, grass roots, home folk, rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff
Derived form adjective folksy2
CIDE DICTIONARY
folks, n. collect. & pl. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.].
- In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [1913 Webster]"The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war." [1913 Webster]
- People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [1913 Webster]"In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales." [1913 Webster] - The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]