Complete Definition of "Frank"

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English

Etymology
Old English Franca

Noun
en-noun

  1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

Translations
trans-top|one of the Franks
Finnish: frankki
trans-mid
Spanish: franco m
trans-bottom

Proper noun
en-proper-noun

  1. given name|male originally derived from the medieval tribal name, revived in the nineteenth century and now considered as a diminutive of Francis .

Translations
trans-top|given name
Danish: #Danish|Frank
Dutch: Frank
French: Franck
German: #German|Frank
trans-mid
Italian: Franco
Norwegian: #Norwegian|Frank
Portuguese: Franco
Spanish: Franco
Swedish: #Swedish|Frank
trans-bottom

Quotations
1996 Frank McCourt?: Angela's Ashes. HarperCollins?, Chapter VII, page 197.
:Your name is Francis, is it?
:Frank, sir.
:Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.


Danish

Proper noun
infl|da|proper noun

  1. given name|male||da: borrowed from English and German.

German

Etymology
Old High German Franko " a Frank".

Proper noun
infl|de|proper noun

  1. given name|male||de: used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteeneth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Norwegian

Proper noun
infl|no|proper noun

  1. given name|male||no: borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.

Swedish

Proper noun
infl|sv|proper noun

  1. given name|male||sv: borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.

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