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noun

Folks, Folk n.

(Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. (Obs.) "The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war."

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. (Colloq.) "In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales."

The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. (Colloq. New Eng.)

Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people.

Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

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... lot o' folks here. There'll be strangers, too. ... Don't forget the State Troopers are ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers

... Spear-Danes of yore days, so was it That we learn'd of the fair fame of kings of the folks And the athelings a-faring in framing of valour. Oft then Scyld the Sheaf-son from the hosts of the scathers, From kindreds a many the mead-settles tore; It was then the earl fear'd them, sithence was he first Found bare and all-lacking; so solace ...

— The Tale of Beowulf - Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats • Anonymous

... when they put me into this house, and no shame of mine, for so were my neighbours too; perhaps we were not so painstaking as we might have been; but that was not our fault, you know, as we had not things to work with, nor any body to set us to work, poor folks cannot know every thing as these good ladies do; we were half dead for want of victuals, and then people have not courage to set about any thing. Nay, all the parish were so when they came into it, young and old, there was not much to choose, few of us ...

— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott

... old folks, many feign as they were dead; Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. Last of all, Uranus; or, as the saying is, ...

— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... at twenty-one is hard work, grandmother," he said. "Don't you try it. But I don't think I'm particularly ill: few folks can keep ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various

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