Frank

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English

Adjective

Frank (comparative franker, superlative frankest)

  1. honest, especially in an manner that seems slightly blunt.
  2. (medicine) unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident

Noun

Frank (plural Franks)
  1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.
  2. (uncountable) Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
  3. (countable) The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
  4. (countable) A member of the medieval Germanic people, the Franks.
  5. A hot dog or sausage.
  6. (UK) the grey heron.

Proper noun

Frank

  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname.

Verb

Frank (third-person singular simple present Franks, present participle Franking, simple past and past participle Franked)

  1. To place a frank on an envelope.
  2. To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
  3. To send by public conveyance free of expense.

Adverbs for Frank

delightfully; charmingly; bitterly; cruelly; attractively; distressingly; unusually; characteristically; sarcastically; crudely; appallingly; refreshingly; inordinately; artlessly; innocently; ingenuously; plainly; guilelessly; unaffectedly; apparently; strikingly; naively.

Synonyms for Frank

candid, artless, sincere, open, familiar, easy, free, direct, honest, aboveboard, plain, ingenuous, straightforward.

Antonyms for Frank

hypocritical, insincere, deceptive, secretive, dissembling, deceitful, reticent, indirect, dishonest, devious, cunning.

Related terms

Thesaurus

Thesaurus frank

fluent, forthright, fourth-class mail, frankfurter, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gabby, garrulous, gassy, genuine, glib, gooseliver, gossipy, gregarious, gross, guileless, gushy, gutter, halfpenny post, headcheese, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest, hot dog, impartial, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, junk mail, just, knockwurst, lean, letter post, letters, liver sausage, liverwurst, long-winded, loquacious, low, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, matter-of-fact, multiloquent, multiloquious, naive, natural, neat, newspaper post, newsy, on the level, open, openhearted, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, parcel post, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainspoken, post, post day, postage, postage stamp, postmark, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, rank, raw, registered mail, round, rural delivery, rural free delivery, rustic, salami, saucisse, sausage, scrupulous, sea mail, seapost, self-revealing, self-revelatory, severe, simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single, single-hearted, single-minded, smooth, sober, sociable, spare, special delivery, special handling, stamp, stark, straight, straight-out, straightforward, surface mail, talkative, talky, transparent, trustful, trusting, truthful, unabashed, unadorned, unaffected, unbiased, unchecked, unconcealed, unconstrained, uncouth, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unequivocal, unguarded, unhampered, unimaginative, uninhibited, unmannered, unpoetical, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsophisticated, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, upright, verbose, voluble, vulgar, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie, windy, PP, RD, RFD, Spartan, Vienna sausage, accessible, airmail, all jaw, approachable, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bangers, bare, barefaced, black pudding, blood pudding, bluff, blunt, bologna, book post, born yesterday, braunschweiger, brazen, broad, brusque, cancellation, candid, chatty, childlike, coarse, common, commonplace, communicative, confiding, conversable, conversational, correspondence, demonstrative, direct, direct mail, direct-mail selling, dispassionate, dog, downright, dry, dull, earthy, effusive, expansive, explicit, express, extroverted, fair, flip,

Pronunciation

Etymology

Frank etymology

Etymology 1

From French franc, “free”, in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Frank, partially from Old English Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French franc, and/or Latin Francus (“A Frank”), of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both from Proto-Germanic *frankōn (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsan (“knife, dagger”).

Etymology 3

Shortened form of frankfurter.

Etymology 4

Originally derived from the medieval tribal name, revived in the 19th century and also used as a diminutive of Francis.

See also

Translations

bluntly honest

Noun

one of the Franks

Proper noun

male given name
surname

Danish

Proper noun

Frank

  1. A male given name borrowed from English and German.

French

Proper noun

Frank m.

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Frank.

Notes

German

Etymology

From Old High German Franko (“a Frank”).

Proper noun

Frank

  1. A male given name used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteenth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /fraŋ̊k/
  • Rhymes: -aŋ̊k

Proper noun

Frank m.

  1. A male given name equivalent to English Frank.

Declension

declension of Frank</small>
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Frank - - -
accusative Frank - - -
dative Frank - - -
genitive Franks - - -

Manx

Proper noun

Yn Rank f. (genitive ny Frank)

  1. France
    • Haink eh noal ass yn Rank.
      • He came over from France.
    • Hooar eh baase 'sy Rank.
      • He got killed in France.
    • Ren ad troailt 'sy Rank as ayns yn Spaainey ny yei shen.
      • They travelled in France and then in Spain.
    • T'eh ceau yn geurey ayns jiass ny Frank.
      • He winters in the south of France.

Notes

  • Always preceded by the definite article.

Related terms

Proper noun

Frank m.

  1. A male given name, Manx equivalent to Francis.

Norwegian

Etymology

From English or, rarely, German Frank, in the 19th century.

Proper noun

Frank

  1. A male given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Frank

  1. A male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.

Estonian

Noun

Frank

  1. franc

Declension

This entry needs an inflection template

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

Frank m.

  1. franc

Declension

    declension of Frank
singular plural
nominative frank franki
genitive franka franków
dative frankowi frankom
accusative franka franki
instrumental frankiem frankami
locative franku frankach
vocative franku franki
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