1. (noun)folk, folks, common people people in general (often used in the plural)
"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. (noun)family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry people descended from a commonancestor "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
4. (noun)folk music, ethnic music, folk the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community