Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Franks or their language.
- noun The West Germanic language of the Franks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to the Franks.
- Of or pertaining to Europeans: said with reference to the Oriental use of Frank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective referring to the
Franks - proper noun the language of the
Franks , an extinct West Germanic language
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the Franks
Etymologies
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Examples
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So I concealed my case till this year, when I wrote to certain Frankish corsairs and sought news of my daughter from the Kings of the
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So they clad themselves in Frankish clothes and, when Kuzia Fakan saw them, she exclaimed, “By the truth of the Lord of Worship, did I not know you, I should take you to be indeed Franks!”
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So they played, and he lost and went away, chattering in Frankish jargon and saying,
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[Footnote 93: I call the Frankish king by the name by which he is best known in history, though no doubt the more correct form is either
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He had three other daughters besides these—Theoderada, Hiltrud, and Ruodhaid—two by his third wife, Fastrada, a woman of East Frankish that is to say, of German origin, and the third by a concubine, whose name for the moment escapes me.
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I recalled their Frankish forefathers, swarming down the Apennines, upon
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
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When I was researching the Strongbow Saga series, I several times turned to the Houston Public Library system to obtain copies of hard-to-find copies of translations of old texts, such as Frankish annals from the ninth century.
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Perhaps could the eye of Anastasius have pierced through the mists of seven future centuries, could he have foreseen the insults, the extortions, the cruelties which a Roman Emperor at Constantinople was to endure at the hands of "Frankish" invaders, [111] he would not have been so eager in his worship of the new sun which was rising over Gaul from out of the marshes of the Scheldt.
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He’s even included little touches that add to a sense of atmosphere, such as Frankish women collecting arrows from the dead bodies of the foes during a break in battle.
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He’s even included little touches that add to a sense of atmosphere, such as Frankish women collecting arrows from the dead bodies of the foes during a break in battle.
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