Crossword clues for folks
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Folk \Folk\ (f[=o]k), Folks \Folks\ (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f[=o]lk, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.]
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(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.
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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.
In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.
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The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.]
--Bartlett.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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"persons," Middle English, plural of folk (n.). Colloquial sense of "people of one's family" is from 1715. In Old English in plural use it meant only "peoples, nations."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of folk English) 2 The members of one's household; especially one's parents and immediate family. 3 People in general; everybody or anybody.
WordNet
n. your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"
Wikipedia
is a Japanese rock band that formed in 2013 in Eniwa, Hokkaido. It was formed after members Fumito Iwai and Kazumasa Noguchi left the band Galileo Galilei. The band self-released their first extended play, Take Off, in March 2013, and made their major label debut under Ki/oon Music in 2014 with the extended play Newtown.
The band consists of (vocals, guitar), his older brother (guitar, vocals), (bass, chorus), (guitar, percussion, synthesisers, chorus) and (programming, synthesisers, chorus).
Usage examples of "folks".
His granddaughter married Jedge Matthews, and folks says she is most as good as her granddaddy was.
Atter de white folks et dey fed de Niggers, and dere was allus a plenty for all.
Dey was good christian folks and tuk de mostest pains to larn us chillun how to live right.
It tuk dat much meat to feed all de folks dat had to eat from his kitchen.
Dey put de corpse in one wagon and de fambly rode in another, but all de other folks walked to de graveyard.
Lewis says that he often heard the old folks whispering among themselves at night.
Bedford Lankford, what preached to the white folks helped a Negro, named Cy Stroud, to preach to the Negroes.
It had plenty of room for enough pots, skillets, spiders, and ovens to cook for all de folks on dat plantation.
Mistess, some folks say dat to see things lak dat is a sign your blood is out of order.
Later dere wuz so many colored members de white folks come out and built another house so de niggers could have de old one.
When dat ole church wuz tore down, de colored folks worshipped for a long time in a goat house and den in a brush arbor.
He use to make all de boxes dey buried de white folks and de slaves in, on de Hart and Golden Plantations.
When dey had done give de white folks de sacrament, dey called de Niggers down from de gallery and give dem sacrament too.
Hamp Thomas, a colored man dat lived right below us, made coffins for white folks and slaves too.
White let us git married in her nice big kitchen and all de white folks come out from de big house to see Brother Thomas tie de knot for us.