Trevor vs Franklin - What's the difference?
trevor | franklin |
, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
* 1941 , The Destructors , Collected Stories, Heinemann 1941, page 327
(1706-1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.
transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
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(US, informal) A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
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.trevor
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -