The difference between Folks and People

When used as nouns, folks means late 19th and early 20th century migrants to california from iowa and other parts of the midwestern united states, whereas people means .

People is also verb with the meaning: to stock with people or inhabitants.

check bellow for the other definitions of Folks and People

  1. Folks as a noun:

  2. Folks as a noun:

    The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

    Examples:

    "My folks visit us at Christmas."

  3. Folks as a noun (US):

    People in general; everybody or anybody.

    Examples:

    "Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays."

  4. Folks as a noun (US, slang, rare, southern, _, Louisiana):

    The police.

  1. Folks as a noun (California):

    Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.

  1. People as a noun:

    ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

    Examples:

    "Why do so many people commit suicide?"

  2. People as a noun (countable):

    Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.

  3. People as a noun:

    A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

  4. People as a noun:

    One's colleagues or employees.

  5. People as a noun:

    A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

    Examples:

    "My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War."

  6. People as a noun:

    The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

  7. People as a noun:

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  1. People as a verb (transitive):

    To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

  2. People as a verb (intransitive):

    To become populous or populated.

  3. People as a verb (transitive):

    To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

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