Synonyms:
folk, folks, common_people
Meaning: people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
Synonyms:
tribe, folk
Meaning: a social division of (usually preliterate) people
Synonyms:
family, family_line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
Meaning: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
Usage examples
"Folk?" cried he.
ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK.
Don't tell folk it was I, mind!"
Trade is as bad there as here, folk say."
"Women are strange folk," thought Sir Wilfrid.
Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives.
I'll teach you to stop playing such impish tricks on decent folk.'
Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"
Go in peace, little folk!' And he kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.
I'm come to say good-bye; and few folk like to say good-bye to them they love."