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Definition of FOLK

1

folks pl  a group of persons who come from the same ancestor <her folks have farmed that land for five generations>

Synonyms blood, clan, folks, house, kin, kindred, kinfolk (or kinfolks), kinsfolk, line, lineage, people, race, stock, tribe

Related Words blended family, nuclear family; extended family, household, kith; brood; descendant (also descendent), issue, offspring, progeny, scion, seed; clansman, kinsman, kinswoman, relative; dynasty

Near Antonyms ancestry, birth, descent, extraction, origin, pedigree

2

one of the segments of society into which people are grouped <the working-class folk with no airs or pretentions>

Synonyms caste, estate, folk, gentry, order, stratum

Related Words bracket, echelon, grade, layer, level, tier; place, position, rank, standing, status; food chain, grouping, hierarchy, stratification; clan, family, fraternity, people, race, tribe; subcaste

3

folks pl  human beings in general <c'mon, folks, let's get to work>

Synonyms folks, humanity, humankind, public, species, world

Related Words community, society; crowd, masses, mob, populace, proletariat, rabble, rabblement, riffraff