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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-701/
- Published: 2026-07-19T18:15:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T18:15:29.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

The word for today is...

frank (adjective, verb, noun, noun, noun) -

*adjective*  
1: marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression  
2a: unmistakably evident  
b: clinically evident and unmistakable

*verb*  
1a: to mark (a piece of mail) with an official signature or sign indicating the right of the sender to free mailing  
b: to mail free  
c: to affix to (mail) a stamp or a marking indicating the payment of postage

*noun*  
1a: the signature of the sender on a piece of franked mail serving in place of a postage stamp  
b: a mark or stamp on a piece of mail indicating postage paid  
c: a franked envelope  
2: the privilege of sending mail free of charge

*noun*  
: frankfurter

*noun (Capitalised)*  
: a member of a West Germanic tribal confederacy that entered the Roman provinces in a.d. 253, occupied the Netherlands and most of Gaul, and established themselves along the Rhine

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epenthesis?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The word frank comes from the name of the Franks, a West Germanic people who lived long ago. In the early Middle Ages the Franks were in power in France. (It was from them that the country got its name, in Latin Francia.) The Franks eventually merged with the earlier Gaulish and Roman inhabitants, and their name (Francus in Latin) lost its ethnic sense and referred to any inhabitant of Francia who was free, that is, not a slave or bondman. As an adjective, francus came to mean simply “free.” From the English adjective frank, which means “free” or “forthright,” we get the verb frank, which means “to mark mail with an official sign so that it may be mailed free.”

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