Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "folks" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

dance'til dawn stand upright while praying

Derived Terms

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

folk

Inflected/Variant Forms

folk

Context

california slang southern us

Has Property

happy in skin motivated to work for money

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

clan kin kin group kindred kinship group people tribe

Type Of (IsA)

just humans kin

Related Terms

folk

Related Terms

family folk iowa midwest parent police

Synonym Network

folk

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.