# folks

Pronunciation: say "FOHKS" US /foʊks/, UK /fəʊks/

## Noun

1. People in general, said in a friendly, informal way, often when speaking to a group of listeners. *(US)*
   - Simple: People in general: everyone or anyone.
   - _Folks tend to slow down whenever they spot a patrol car._
   - _A lot of folks believe the rumor without ever checking the facts._
2. The people in one's immediate family, especially one's mother and father.
   - Simple: The people in your close family, especially your parents.
   - _He moved back in with his folks after college to save money._
   - _We spend every Thanksgiving with her folks in Ohio._
3. Plural of folk. — plural of folk
   - Simple: Plural of folk. Use it for more than one people or nation, mostly in old writing.

## Other meanings

- (noun) Migrants who came to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- (noun) The police, considered as a body of law-enforcement officers.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/folks (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).