Definitions for Franklin

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Franklin frank·lin

Spelling: [frangk-lin]

IPA: /ˈfræŋk lɪn/

Franklin is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in Franklin (afiklnnr).

Definitions for Franklin

noun

1. (in the 14th and 15th centuries) a freeholder who was not of noble birth.
2. Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
3. Benjamin, 1706–90, American statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, and inventor.
4. Sir John, 1786–1847, English Arctic explorer.
5. John Hope, 1915–2009, U.S. historian and educator.
6. a district in extreme N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, including the Boothia and Melville peninsulas, Baffin Island, and other Arctic islands. 549,253 sq. mi. (1,422,565 sq. km).
7. a town in S Massachusetts.
8. a city in SE Wisconsin.
9. a town in central Tennessee.
10. a town in central Indiana.
11. a town in SW Ohio.
12. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “freeholder.”.

Origin of Franklin

1250-1300; Middle English fra(u)nkelin Anglo-French fraunclein, equivalent to fraunc free, frank¹ + -lein -ling¹; form

Examples for Franklin

From boyhood franklin had been interested in natural phenomena.

In 1844, he was elected to the State Senate from the franklin district.

Two years later, Kansas helped oust Curtis—and Hoover—by voting for franklin Roosevelt and re-electing McGill.

Third, franklin Foer wrote a cover story for The New Republic on why Amazon needs to be broken up.

franklin went through life with the joyous inventiveness of the amateur.

So said President franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 23, 1933, just before he reached for a cold one.

Thanks to that meddling franklin and the other editors, Jefferson thought his Declaration had been “mangled.”

Elkanah Watson was also a bearer of despatches to Dr. franklin.

Churchill said that meeting franklin Roosevelt was like opening a bottle of Champagne—and so is reading The Churchill Factor.

franklin eliminated this feature and dropped the first part of the long name.