English > folks: 2 senses > noun 2, group| Meaning | People in general (often used in the plural). |
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| Example | "folks around here drink moonshine" |
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| Synonyms | folk, common people |
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| Members | plebeian, pleb | One of the common people |
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| Narrower | country people, countryfolk | People raised in or living in a rural environment |
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| gentlefolk | People of good family and breeding and high social status |
| grass roots | The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) |
| home folk | folks from your own home / home town |
| rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail | disparaging terms for the common people |
| Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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| Spanish | gente, plebe, pueblo, vulgo |
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| Catalan | plebs, poble, vulgar |
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| Adjectives | folksy | very informal and familiar |
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