folks
your parents
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,973 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,114 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- your parents he wrote to his folks every day
- people in general (often used in the plural) also: folk, common people they're just country folkfolks around here drink moonshine
folks in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Folks had always given them these names.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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Five groups of books, intended for reading aloud to the little folks each night.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels · Howard Roger Garis · Chapter 1
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Folks seem as afraid to come here as if they expected to get some awful disease.
Our Nig · Harriet E. Wilson · Chapter 1
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The young folks was all friends, and I guess she just can’t bear to talk about it.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The folks down there know more about life in a day than we do in all our pitiful lives.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1