Dictionary Entry
folks
folks is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun collect & plural and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun collect & plural
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
- 2noun collect & plural
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.
- 3noun collect & plural
The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
- 4noun
people in general (often used in the plural)
"they're just country folk"
"folks around here drink moonshine"
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- 5noun
your parents
"he wrote to his folks every day"
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