Frank
[fræŋk]
[fræŋk]
Definition
(noun.) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll.
(noun.) a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century.
(verb.) exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks.
(adj.) clearly manifest; evident; 'frank enjoyment' .
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Definition
(n.) A pigsty.
(v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
(n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.
(n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
(n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
(n.) Liberal; generous; profuse.
(n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
(v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense.
(v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
(a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
(a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
(a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
(a.) A French coin. See Franc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Artless, candid, open, ingenuous, free, sincere, frank-hearted, unreserved, without disguise.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ingenuous, candid, open, unreserved, artless, free, familiar, honest, easy,sincere, outspoken, plain
ANT:Disingenuous, close, reserved
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Definition
adj. free open: (obs.) liberal: open or candid in expression: (Spens.) unrestrained.—v.t. to send free of expense as a letter.—n. the signature of a person who had the right to frank a letter.—n. Frank′-fee a species of tenure in fee-simple the opposite of copyhold.—adv. Frank′ly candidly: (obs.) gratuitously.—ns. Frank′ness; Frank′-pledge a system of mutual suretyship by which the members of a tithing were made responsible for one another; Frank′-ten′ement freehold.
n. (Shak.) a pig-sty.—v.t. (Shak.) to shut up in a sty to cram to fatten.
n. one of the German tribes from Franconia who conquered Gaul in the 5th century and founded France: the name given in the East to a native of Western Europe.—adj. Frank′ish.
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Examples
- I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr. Knightley, than with Frank Churchill? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Oh my DEAR Frank! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It appeared, indeed, from the countenance of this proprietor, that he was of a frank, but hasty and choleric temper. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At last you wrote and franked your letter, probably to show me that you were in Parliament! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Then, my dear Miss Summerson, said he with the frankest gaiety, don't allude to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now I come to think of it, he looked inquiringly at us with his frankest smile as he made the discovery, Vholes bribed me, perhaps? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This does not however prevent his being one of the frankest men I ever met with. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His was the wittiest word, the pleasantest anecdote, the frankest laugh. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You know them as well as I; and, knowing them, Dr. John, it really amazes me that you should not repose the frankest confidence in her fidelity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Never was a more undisguised schemer, a franker, looser intriguer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then for a while the barbarians were held, and the Emperor Probus in 276 forced the Franks and the Alamanni back over the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A portion of the city is pretty exclusively Turkish; the Jews have a quarter to themselves; the Franks another quarter; so, also, with the Armenians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We find in 236 A.D. a people called the Franks breaking bounds upon the Lower Rhine, and another, the Alamanni, pouring into Alsace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of Gaul, Holland, and the Rhineland was under the fairly vigorous, Christianized, and much more civilized kingdom of the Franks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gaul was divided among Visigoths, Franks, and Burgundians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Franking a letter for some fool or another: such a nuisance! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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