Folks

n. people; people who share a common background or way of life (i.e. country folk); one's family (Informal); one's parents (Informal)

n. people; people who share a common background or way of life (i.e. country folk); cultural or ethnic group

For other uses of this term, see People (disambiguation). People denotes a group of humans, either with unspecified traits, or specific characteristics (e.g. the people of Spain or the people of the Plains).The term people is often used in English as the suppletive plural of person. However, the word persons is sometimes used in place of people, especially when it would be ambiguous with its collective sense (e.g. missing persons instead of missing people). The term people can collectively refer to all humans or it can be used to identify the citizens of a nation, or members of a tribe, ethnic, or religious group. "People of color" is an archaic and potentially derogatory phrase used to describe people with skin color darker than that of white people.
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Noun
1. your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"
(hypernym) kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

Noun
1. people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
(synonym) common people
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) grass roots
(member-meronym) plebeian, pleb
2. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
(synonym) tribe
(hypernym) social group
(hyponym) phyle
(member-meronym) moiety
3. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
(synonym) family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hyponym) people
4. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
(synonym) folk music, ethnic music
(hypernym) popular music, popular music genre
(hyponym) folk song, folksong, folk ballad

n. folk, people; people who share a common background or way of life (i.e. country folk); cultural or ethnic group

peoples', peoples