Definition of folks

"folks" in the noun sense

1. folk, folks, common people

people in general (often used in the plural

"he wrote to his folks every day"

"they're just country folk"

"folks around here drink moonshine"

"the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

2. tribe, folk

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

"they're just country folk"

"folks around here drink moonshine"

"the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

3. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

people descended from a common ancestor

"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

4. folk music, ethnic music, folk

the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

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Quotations for folks

Dumb folks get no land. [ Proverb ]

Dead folks cannot bite. [ Proverb ]

Fools are not mad folks. [ Shakespeare ]

Threatened folks live long. [ Proverb ]

Poor folks are soon pissed on. [ Proverb ]

Poor folks are glad of porridge. [ Proverb ]

Perhaps hinders folks from lying. [ Proverb ]

Chare-folks are never paid enough. [ Proverb ]

A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]

To fine folks a little ill finely wrapt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]

Poor folks must say thank ye for a little. [ Proverb ]

Little folks like to talk about great folks. [ Proverb ]

From great folks great favours are to be expected. [ Cervantes ]

As much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman. [ Proverb ]

The house is a fine house when good folks are within. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? [ Proverb ]

You may know by the market-folks, how the market goes. [ Proverb ]

Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost. [ Colton ]

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. [ George Eliot ]

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. [ George Eliot ]

Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. [ Goldsmith ]

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. [ Sheridan ]

Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

folks in Scrabble®

The word folks is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters folks:

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The 94 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In folks

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folks in Words With Friends™

The word folks is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters folks:

FOLKS
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word folks

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The 108 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In folks

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Words within the letters of folks

2 letter words in folks (3 words)

3 letter words in folks (1 word)

4 letter words in folks (1 word)

5 letter words in folks (1 word)

folks + 1 blank (2 words)

folks + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence folks

Words with folks in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving folks

Shorter words in folks

folk

Longer words containing folks

cityfolks

countryfolks

folksier

folksiest

folksily

folksiness

folksinger folksingers

folksinging

folksong folksongs

folksy

gentlefolks

hillfolks

kinfolks

kinsfolks

seafolks

shopfolks

townfolks

townsfolks

tradesfolks

womenfolks