franklins

Propertied English freemen

Franklins is the plural of franklin, a historical term for a medieval English landowner of free but not noble birth—a prosperous farmer ranking below the gentry.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales features a franklin among its pilgrims.

The word is archaic, surviving mainly in literary and historical contexts. (Capitalized Franklin is a surname or given name.)

founders

Constitution

Governing principles document

inventor · polymath · bifocals · printer · ambassador · revolution · liberty

currency

cash

Ready spending funds

bills · denomination · currency · paper-money · stacks · tender · dollars · notes · treasury · wallet

surname

DNA

Hereditary code molecule

  • FDRDepression-era presidential initials
  • genealogyStudy of family descent
  • lineageDescent from progenitors

ancestry · namesake

birds

seabird

Ocean-dwelling winged creature

wetlands · plumage · wings · flock · breeding · ornithology · shorebird · wildlife

places

Tennessee

Sixteenth state admitted

Pennsylvania · township · municipality · town · city · district · geography · settlement · locale

Opposites
feudal social hierarchy

franklinsserfs

Feudal bound laborers

villeins · bondsmen · thralls · slaves · lords

Family

frank, frankly, frankness, franks

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