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franklin
 
Noun franklin has 3 senses
  1. Franklin, John Hope Franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
    --1 is a kind of historian, historiographer
  2. Franklin, 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)
    --2 is a kind of printer, pressman; writer, author; American Revolutionary leader; scientist, man of science
  3. franklin - a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
    --3 is a kind of     landowner, landholder, property owner
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