frank
IPA: frˈæŋk
noun
- (uncountable) Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
- (countable) The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
- A hot dog or sausage.
- (UK) The grey heron.
- A pigsty.
- One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A diminutive of the male given name Francis
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (historical) Obsolete form of franc, former French coins, moneys of account, and currency. [A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro.]
verb
- To place a frank on an envelope.
- To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
- To send by public conveyance free of expense.
- To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
adjective
- honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
- (medicine) unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident
- (obsolete) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
- (obsolete) Liberal; generous; profuse.
- (obsolete, derogatory) Unrestrained; loose; licentious.
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