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Meaning of franklin

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Franklin
      n 1: United States historian noted for studies of Black American
           history (born in 1915) [syn: {Franklin}, {John Hope
           Franklin}]
      2: 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) [syn: {Franklin}, {Benjamin
         Franklin}]
      3: a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of
         noble birth

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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