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say it: fohk
folk is a noun meaning "people in general (often used in the plural)". It is pronounced /ˈfoʊk/ — fohk. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
a social division of (usually preliterate) people
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for folk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.