Synonyms of the word folks


FOLKSCLAN - FOLK - KIN - KINDRED - PEOPLE - TRIBE

folks

  • n. plural of folk.
  • n. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents.
  • n. (US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
  • n. (California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the…

clan

  • n. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
  • n. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
  • n. Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.
  • n. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
  • n. A badger colony.

folk

  • adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  • adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  • adj. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
  • n. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  • n. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  • n. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
  • n. (music) Folk music.
  • n. (plural only) People in general.
  • n. (plural only) A particular group of people.

kin

  • n. Race; family; breed; kind.
  • n. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  • n. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
  • n. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  • n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
  • adj. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
  • n. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
  • n. Alternative form of k'in.
  • v. Pronunciation spelling of can.

kindred

  • n. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
  • n. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
  • n. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
  • n. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.
  • adj. Of the same nature.

people

  • n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
  • n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
  • n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
  • n. One's colleagues or employees.
  • n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
  • n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
  • n. plural of person.
  • v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  • v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
  • v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

tribe

  • n. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • n. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • n. The collective noun for various animals.
  • n. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • n. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female…
  • v. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

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