franklin

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Middle English) .
  2. Proper noun.  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.
  3. Proper noun.  (given name, male) transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
  4. Noun.  (US, informal) A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
  5. Noun.  (italbrac, 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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