| NOUN | group | folks | your parents |
|---|---|---|---|
| group | folks, folk, common people | people in general (often used in the plural) |
| Sounds | fow'ks | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | coax ... Ochs: 4 rhymes with owks... | |
| Meaning | Your parents. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he wrote to his folks every day" | |
| Broader | kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
| Usage of | plural, plural form | The form of a word that is used to denote more than one |
| Meaning | People in general (often used in the plural). | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "folks around here drink moonshine" | |
| Synonyms | folk, common people | |
| Members | plebeian, pleb | One of the common people |
| Narrower | country people, countryfolk | People raised in or living in a rural environment |
| 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 / home town | |
| rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail | disparaging terms for the common people | |
| Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
| Catalan | poble | |
| Spanish | pueblo | |
| Adjectives | folksy | very informal and familiar |