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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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