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1. folks - noun

· your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"

Hypernym(s): kin, kin_group, kinship_group, kindred, clan, tribe




2. folks - noun

· 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): folk, common_people

Hypernym(s): people




3. folk - noun

· 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




4. folk - noun

· a social division of (usually preliterate) people

Synonym(s): tribe

Hypernym(s): social_group




5. folk - noun

· 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




6. folk - noun

· 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





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