Definition of franklin
:a medieval English landowner of free but not noble birth
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Suter 2x4; Meek 3x4, 2B, 2 RBIs; Bittle 2B; Bossman 2B. SHELDON 8, FRANKLIN 0 Franklin 000 000 — 0 1 1 Sheldon 102 203 — 8 11 0 F–Keinath and Sarnecki; S–Miles, Owen (6) and Moreno.
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Both Franklins fouled out late in the game; center Matt Lanzone fouled out in the middle of the final quarter.
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Origin and Etymology of franklin
Middle English frankeleyn, from Anglo-French franclein, from franc
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Aretha (Louise) 1942– 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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Definition of Franklin
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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