folks
pronunciation
How to pronounce folks in British English:
UK ['fəʊks]
How to pronounce folks in American English:
US ['foʊks]
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- Noun:
- your parents
Word Origin
- folks (n.)
- "persons," Middle English, plural of folk (n.). Colloquial sense of "people of one's family" is from 1715. In Old English in plural use it meant only "peoples, nations."
Example
- 1. Just encourage folks to try small scale experiments , not bet the future of the firm on open source .
- 2. Conscientious folks getting over a cold ?
- 3. But don 't take my word for it , folks .
- 4. My folks objected , but they couldn 't say much when they saw what I was making .
- 5. He 's had to spend most of his time up north because his folks in charleston won 't even speak to him .