franklin

FREQ #4483

发音

US /ˈfɹæŋk.lɪn/

词形变化

franklins 复数 franklins

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.

    历史

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

landowner landholder

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词源

From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), from Anglo-Norman fraunclein (“a landowner of free, but not noble birth”), from Old French fraunc (“free”), from Frankish *Frankō (“Frank”, literally “freeman”) + Old French -lein (“-ling”), from Frankish *-ling (“-ling”). More at frank, -ling.

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