· 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"
Synonym(s): folks, common_people
Hypernym(s): people
· a social division of (usually preliterate) people
Synonym(s): tribe
Hypernym(s): social_group
· people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
Synonym(s): family, family_line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
Hypernym(s): lineage, line, line_of_descent, descent, bloodline, blood_line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
· the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Synonym(s): folk_music, ethnic_music
Hypernym(s): popular_music, popular_music_genre