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Meaning:

Noun:

  • obsolete except historical A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking below the gentry.
  • informal A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

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Proper noun:

  • male|from=surnames transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
  • from=Middle English|dot= derived from enm|en Franklin|lang=enm.
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.

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