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| frank [ frangk ] |
adjective (comparative franker, superlative frank·est) |
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1. expressing true opinion: open, honest, and sometimes forceful in expressing true feelings and opinions
  Let me be frank with you.
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2. showing openness and bluntness: allowing people's true feelings and opinions to be openly and often bluntly stated
a frank discussion of our differences
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3. pleasingly honest: having or showing an appealingly open and honest nature
has a frank manner that won her many friends
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4. undisguised: openly expressed, without concealment or disguise
regarded him with frank loathing
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transitive verb (past and past participle franked, present participle frank·ing, 3rd person present singular franks) |
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1. print mark over stamp: to print an official mark over the stamp on a letter or package to show that payment has been formally accepted
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2. print mark showing postage paid: to print a mark on a piece of mail, instead of using a postage stamp, to show that postage has been paid or that there is no postage charge
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noun (plural franks) |
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1. official mark on mail: an official mark printed on a piece of mail to show that postage has been paid or that postage is free of charge
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2. mail right to free mail delivery: the right to have mailed items delivered free of charge
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| [14th century. Via French, "free, generous, candid" < medieval Latin francus "Frank, free"; from the granting of full political freedom in Gaul only to the Franks] |
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| frank·ness noun |
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