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# franklin

«franklin» in Mova's school dictionary: **a first name and a family name, as in Benjamin Franklin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Franklin — a name); noun (a franklin, franklins — history, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Franklin is a first name and a family name, as in Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of the United States, and Franklin the Turtle in children's books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#m1)

2) (history) In old England, a franklin was a free man who owned land but was not a lord or a knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons the word is almost always a name: Benjamin Franklin is famous for his kite experiment with lightning, for inventing bifocal glasses and the lightning rod, and for helping write the Declaration of Independence; his face is on the US hundred-dollar bill. Franklin is also a place name (many US towns) and a character in picture books. In history lessons about the Middle Ages, a franklin is one of the people in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Phrases: «Benjamin Franklin», «Franklin the Turtle», «the Franklin expedition» (a lost voyage to the Arctic).

### examples

- Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a storm to learn about electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x1)
- Franklin helped write the Declaration of Independence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x2)
- My little brother loves the Franklin the Turtle books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x3)
- There is a picture of Franklin on the hundred-dollar bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x4)
- We drove through a small town called Franklin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x5)
- In Chaucer's story, the franklin loves good food and wine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x6)
- Franklin invented the lightning rod to protect houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/#x7)

### note

Written with a capital F when it is a name. As an old word for a free landowner (small f) it is rare and only met in history. Do not invent facts about a person called Franklin in a story: read what the text says. Benjamin Franklin did not "discover" electricity; he showed that lightning is electricity.

### In the corpora

- [A lightning rod gives lightning an easy metal path down a thick wire into the earth, and Benjamin Franklin invented it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/16/)
- [Benjamin Franklin kept a chart of thirteen virtues and marked his faults every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «franklin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/franklin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.