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FRANKLIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("franklin" is a kind of...):
landholder; landowner; property owner (a holder or proprietor of land)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Benjamin Franklin; Franklin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)
pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
Synonyms:
Franklin; John Hope Franklin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
