FRANKLIN as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
   Hypernyms(s) franklin is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • landowner (what does landowner mean?)
   • landholder (what does landholder mean?)
   • property owner (what does property owner mean?)
2. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • Benjamin Franklin (what does Benjamin Franklin mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Franklin is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • printer (what does printer mean?)
   • pressman (what does pressman mean?)
   • writer (what does writer mean?)
   • author (what does author mean?)
   • American Revolutionary leader (what does American Revolutionary leader mean?)
   • scientist (what does scientist mean?)
   • man of science (what does man of science mean?)
3. Meaning
   • United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
   Synonym(s)
   • John Hope Franklin (what does John Hope Franklin mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Franklin is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • historian (what does historian mean?)
   • historiographer (what does historiographer mean?)