| Folks 1. (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. 2. (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. 3. (n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. Thesaurus Entries agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brood, children, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, german, get, hearth, homefolks, house, household, issue, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, menage, near relation, next of kin, offspring, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin |