1. Your parents
   "he wrote to his folks every day"
    
2. People in general (often used in the plural)
   "folks around here drink moonshine";
   - folk, common people

1. A social division of (usually preliterate) people
   "Anthropologists studied the folk traditions of the indigenous tribe";
   - tribe
    
2. People descended from a common ancestor; blood relations
   "The folk gathered for their annual family reunion";
   - family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, fam [informal], kith and kin
    
3. The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
   "The festival celebrated the rich diversity of folk music from around the world";
   - folk music, ethnic music

Derived forms: folkses

Type of: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, clan, descent, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, people, popular music, popular music genre, social group, stemma, stock, tribe

Encyclopedia: Folks