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Frances
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francés francês francès Francés
English
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Pronunciation
en /ˈfɹænsɪz/ /ˈfɹænsɪs/ UK,US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-Frances.wav US
en /ˈfɹɑːnsɪz/ /ˈfɹɑːnsɪs/ RP
en ænsɪz UK, US ɑːnsɪz Received Pronunciation 2
Etymology 1
From en fro Franceise, feminine form of fro Franceis, from en la-lat Franciscus Frankish. en Francesca Francisca.
Proper noun
en female Latin Francis.
III I Armado. Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.Costard. O! marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.
en 1883 w:Wilkie Collins Heart and Science Chatto and Windus 227 "My name is Frances. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty! - - - Call me Frances - a man's name, with only the difference between an i and an e. No sentiment in it, hard, like me."
en 1961 w:Janet Frame Owls Do Cry 072510029X 97 My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances, and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.
en Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert Elon Musk pulled Twitter from the EU's anti-disinformation agreement and continues to troll with alt-right memes and dogwhistles. It could be a sign he'll close the site to Europe completely w:Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-pull-twitter-european-commission-digital-services-act-2023-5 2023-05-27 The DSA became a legislative priority for the European Commission after the 2021 Facebook leak, when whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed Facebook and its parent company Meta knowingly prioritized profit over addressing rampant disinformation and racist hate speech on the platform. https://web.archive.org/web/20230804143841/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-pull-twitter-european-commission-digital-services-act-2023-5
en rare en male Francis.
en Jordan Valinsky Ticket prices for the all-American men’s matchup at the US Open are surging w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/us-open-fritz-tiafoe-ticket-prices 2024-09-06 The highly anticipated all-American matchup between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — marking the first US Open semifinals between two US men in nearly 20 years — will cost you quite a few Honey Deuces to attend. https://web.archive.org/web/20250523172220/https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/us-open-fritz-tiafoe-ticket-prices
en ucomm co/Johnson County s/Indiana c/USA.
en ucomm co/Crittenden County s/Kentucky c/USA.
en ucomm co/Pacific County s/Washington c/USA.
en town in south-east s/South Australia, on the border with Victoria.
Usage notes
Also believed to be a surname, but this requires confirmation.
Derived terms
en Francestown
Related terms
variants en Francesca, en Francine, en France
pet forms en Fannie, en Fanny, en Fran, en Francie, en Frannie, en Franny
Translations
feminine form of Francis
Bulgarian: bg Фра́нсис f, bg Франци́ска f, bg Франче́ска f
Catalan: ca Francesca
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 弗朗西絲 Fúlǎngxīsī
Czech: cs Františka
Danish: da Francisca
Dutch: nl Fransje
Esperanto: eo Franciska
French: fr Françoise
German: de Franziska
Hungarian: hu Franciska
Irish: ga Proinséas f
Italian: it Francesca
Japanese: ja フランシス Furanshisu
Manx: gv Frangaid f
Occitan: oc Francesa f
Polish: pl Franciszka f
Portuguese: pt Francisca f
Russian: ru Фра́нсис f, ru Фра́нсес f, ru Фрэ́нсис f, ru Франци́ска f, ru Франче́ска f, ru Франсуа́за f
Slovak: sk Františka f
Spanish: es Francisca
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en proper noun form
en France
en 1967 Eric A. Nordlinger The Working-class Tories 236 The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.
en 1998 Shanny Peer France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore 0791437108 2 Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
en 2013 Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives 48 1136277218 Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances? Yes and no.
Anagrams
en acefnrs enscarf
Occitan
Proper noun
m oc Limousin
oc male Francis
Related terms
oc oc Fançon (diminutive) oc Francesa (feminine) oc Franceton (diminutive) Francilh oc Francicon (diminutive) oc Francilhon (diminutive) oc Francinet (diminutive)
Further reading
; page 306
Portuguese
Noun
m #es #a
pt francês
Adjective
1
pt francês