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frank·lin | \ ˈfraŋ-klən 
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: a medieval English landowner of free but not noble birth
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biographical name (1)Frank·lin | \ ˈfraŋ-klən \
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Aretha (Louise) 1942–2018 American singer
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Benjamin 1706–1790 American statesman and philosopher
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Sir John 1786–1847 English arctic explorer
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Rosalind Elsie 1920–1958 English biophysicist
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geographical nameFrank·lin | \ ˈfraŋ-klən \
\Definition of Franklin (Entry 6 of 6)
1 city in east central Massachusetts population 31,635
2 town in central Tennessee south of Nashville population 62,487
3 city in southeastern Wisconsin, a south-southwestern suburb of Milwaukee population 35,451
4 former district in the northern part of the Northwest Territories, Canada, including the Arctic islands and Boothia and Melville peninsulas; area now divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
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