Frank

Adjective

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

Noun

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

Verb

 * 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

 * cocktail frank
 * frankfurt
 * frankfurter

Thesaurus
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

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/fr{Nk/}}
 * , {{X-SAMPA|/fr{Nk/}}
 * , {{X-SAMPA|/fr{Nk/}}

Etymology 1
From French franc, “free”, in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks.

Etymology 2
From Frank:, partially from  Franca:; and partially from  franc:, and/or  Francus:, of  origin, from Old  *undefined:; both from. Cognate with Franko:,  franca:. Compare Saxon:, ultimately a derivative of.

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.

Translations

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Noun

 * Armenian: ֆրանկ
 * Bengali: ফ্রাংক
 * Catalan: franc
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: franki
 * Japanese: フランク人


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: frankar
 * Russian: франк
 * Spanish:

Proper noun

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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フランク
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Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English and German.

Proper noun

 * , cognate to English Frank.

Etymology
From Franko:.

Proper noun

 * 1)  used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteenth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Proper noun

 * 1)  equivalent to English Frank:.

Proper noun
(genitive ny Frank)


 * 1) France
 * 2) * Haink eh noal ass yn Rank.
 * 3) ** He came over from France.
 * 4) * Hooar eh baase 'sy Rank.
 * 5) ** He got killed in France.
 * 6) * Ren ad troailt 'sy Rank as ayns yn Spaainey ny yei shen.
 * 7) ** They travelled in France and then in Spain.
 * 8) * T'eh ceau yn geurey ayns jiass ny Frank.
 * 9) ** He winters in the south of France.

Proper noun

 * , Manx equivalent to Francis.

Etymology
From or, rarely,  Frank:, in the 19th century.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.

Noun

 * 1) franc

Noun

 * 1) franc