Folks

//fəʊks//

Synonyms for "folks" (82 found)

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Closest matches (17)

agnate ancestry blood blood relation blood relative body politic brood children citizenry clansman cognate collateral collateral relative common man commonwealth community

Noun(1 words)

common people

Strong matches (24)

connections consanguinean distaff side distant relation enate estate everybody everyman everyone family flesh flesh and blood folk general public gentry german get hearth homefolks house

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household issue john doe

Noun(1 words)

folk

Related words (41)

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11 relation types

More general

7 entries

clan kin kin group kindred kinship group people tribe

Synonyms

1 entries

folk

Related terms

1 entries

folk

capable of

2 entries

dance'til dawn stand upright while praying

derived

16 entries

Folkston but seriously folks congressfolks different strokes for different folks folksy gentlefolks grandfolks just folks just plain folks just-folks ladyfolks menfolks old folks regular folks showfolks that's all, folks

derived from

1 entries

folk

form of

1 entries

folk

has context

4 entries

california slang southern us

has property

2 entries

happy in skin motivated to work for money

is a

2 entries

just humans kin

related to

6 entries

family folk iowa midwest parent police

Translations

4 translations across 2 languages.

Finnish

1 entries

porukat noun (immediate family, parents in particular)

Japanese

3 entries

両親 noun (immediate family, parents in particular)
人々 noun (immediate family, parents in particular)
親戚 noun (immediate family, parents in particular)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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Now folks, let's go on.

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Her folks cannot help worrying about her wound.

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Even smart folks become absent-minded at times.

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Is it really wise for marketing folks to satisfy people's desire for instant gratification?

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