A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
[Middle English frankelein, from Anglo-Norman fraunclein, from Anglo-Norman franc. See frank1.]
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frank·lin (frăng'klĭn)  |
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A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
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[Guggenheim E. A. Nature Vol. 148, 751 (1941)]
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
(England) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
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