Franklin meaning

frăng'klĭn
A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
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A freeholder; specif., in England in the 14th-15th cent., a landowner of free but not noble birth, ranking just below the gentry.
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A masculine name.
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1706-90; Am. statesman, scientist, inventor, & writer.
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1786-1847; Eng. arctic explorer.
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Former district of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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(obsolete except historical) A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking below the gentry.
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A surname​.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.
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A male given name transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
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A town in Alabama.
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A town in Arkansas.
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A town in Connecticut.
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A village in Georgia, USA.
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A city in Idaho.
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A village in Illinois.
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A city in Indiana.
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A city in Iowa.
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A city in Kentucky.
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A city in Louisiana.
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A town in Maine.
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A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada.
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A town in Massachusetts.
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A village in Michigan.
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A city in Minnesota.
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A city in Missouri.
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A city in Nebraska.
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A city in New Hampshire.
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A borough in New Jersey.
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One of two towns in New York.
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A town in North Carolina.
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A city in Ohio.
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A city in Pennsylvania.
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A municipality in Quebec.
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A township and a river in Tasmania.
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A city in Tennessee.
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A town in Vermont.
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A city in Virginia.
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A town in West Virginia.
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A city and a few towns in Wisconsin.
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(US, informal) A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
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Origin of franklin

  • From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • Middle English frankelein from Anglo-Norman fraunclein from Anglo-Norman franc frank1
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), from Anglo-Norman fraunclein (“a landowner of free, but not noble birth”), from fraunc (“free”), from Frankish *Frank (“freeman”) + -lein (“-ling”), from Frankish *-linc (“-ling”), from Proto-Germanic *-lingaz. Cognate with Old High German Franko (“Frank”), Old High German -ling (“-ling”). More at frank, -ling.
    From Wiktionary

Franklin Sentence Examples

  • It was not until the middle of the 18th century that experiments due to Benjamin Franklin showed that the electric phenomena of the atmosphere are not fundamentally different from those produced in the laboratory.

  • Franklin was seized and imprisoned, under a warrant from the State Supreme Court.

  • FRANKFORT, the capital city of Kentucky, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Franklin county, on the Kentucky river, about 55 m.

  • Benjamin Franklin, who was born and spent his boyhood in Boston, left boo() to the city in his will; it amounted in 1905 to $403,000, and constituted a fund to be used for the good of the labouring class of the city.

  • I voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt five or six times.

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