folks
Noun
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Your parents (synset 107987470)
"he wrote to his folks every day"domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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People in general (often used in the plural) (synset 107963841)
"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 type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectivelysubtypes:
- 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
same as: common people, folk
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