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franklin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun franklin has 3 senses
- franklin(n = noun.person) john hope franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915); Array is a kind of historian, historiographer
- franklin(n = noun.person) benjamin franklin - printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790); Array is a kind of american revolutionary leader, pressman, printer, scientist, author, writer
- franklin(n = noun.person) Array - a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth; Array is a kind of landholder, landowner, property owner
CIDE DICTIONARY
An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"The franklin, a small landholder of those days."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
franklin, n. hist. a landowner of free but not noble birth in the 14th and 15th c. in England.
Etymology
ME francoleyn etc. f. AL francalanus f. francalis held without dues f. francus free: see FRANK
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