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Franklin vs Frances - What's the difference?

franklin | frances |

As a noun franklin

is (obsolete except historical) a freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking below the gentry.

As a proper noun frances is

(male given name).

franklin

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (1706-1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.
  • transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
  • A town in Alabama
  • A town in Arkansas
  • A town in Connecticut
  • A village in Georgia, USA
  • A city in Idaho
  • A village in Illinois
  • A city in Indiana
  • A city in Iowa
  • A city in Kentucky
  • A city in Louisiana
  • A town in Maine
  • A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada
  • A town in Massachusetts
  • A village in Michigan
  • A city in Minnesota
  • A city in Missouri
  • A city in Nebraska
  • A city in New Hampshire
  • A borough in New Jersey
  • One of two towns in New York
  • A town in North Carolina
  • A city in Ohio
  • A city in Pennsylvania
  • A municipality in Quebec
  • A township and a river in Tasmania
  • A city in Tennessee
  • A town in Vermont
  • A city in Virginia
  • A town in West Virginia
  • A city and a few towns in Wisconsin

    • Derived terms

    * Franklin stove

    See also

    * Frank

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

    • Synonyms

    * Benjamin ----

    frances

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , feminine form of Francis.
  • * c.1590 William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost : Act III, Scene I:
    • Armado . Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
    Costard''. O! marry me to one Frances : I smell some ''l'envoy , some goose, in this.
  • * 1883 , Heart and Science , Chatto and Windus, page 227:
    • "My name is Frances'. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty! - - - Call me ' Frances - a man's name, with only the difference between an i and an e. No sentiment in it, hard, like me."
  • * 1961 , Owls Do Cry , ISBN 072510029X, page 97:
    • My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances , and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.
    Related terms
    * (variants) Francesca, Francine * (pet forms) Fannie, Fanny, Fran, Francie, Frannie, Franny

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (head)
  • * 1967 , Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories , page 236:
    • The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances ’.
  • * 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
    • Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
  • * 2013 , Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives (ISBN 1136277218), page 48:
    • Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances ? Yes and no.