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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"California English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Kevin Starr, California: A History, Modern Library, page 182",
"text": "McPherson's healing ministry, in fact. was at the core of her success, since so many of the Folks had come to Southern California in late middle or old age in the hope of regaining lost health.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States."
],
"links": [
[
"Iowa",
"Iowa"
],
[
"Midwest",
"Midwest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States."
],
"tags": [
"California",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/foʊks/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/foʊlks/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fəʊks/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊks"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-folks.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/En-us-folks.ogg/En-us-folks.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/En-us-folks.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "folks"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "folks",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old Norse",
"lang_code": "non",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Norse non-lemma forms",
"Old Norse noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "folk"
}
],
"glosses": [
"genitive singular of folk"
],
"links": [
[
"folk",
"folk#Old Norse"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "folks"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "noun plural form"
},
"expansion": "folks",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots non-lemma forms",
"Scots noun plural forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "folk"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of folk"
],
"links": [
[
"folk",
"folk#Scots"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "folks"
}
{
"categories": [
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish non-lemma forms",
"Swedish noun forms"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "folks",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "folk"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite genitive plural of folk"
],
"links": [
[
"folk",
"folk#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "folk"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite genitive singular of folk"
],
"links": [
[
"folk",
"folk#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "folks"
}
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