noun (n)

• people in general (often used in the plural)(noun.group)

  Example:
  They're just country folk.
  Folks around here drink moonshine.
  

  Synonym:
  common people, folks
  

  source: wordnet30
• a social division of (usually preliterate) people(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  tribe
  

  source: wordnet30
• people descended from a common ancestor(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept
  

  source: wordnet30
• the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  ethnic music, folk music
  

  source: wordnet30
• In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.(noun)

  source: webster1913