Frances
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfɹænsɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɑːnsɪz/
- Rhymes: (UK, US) -ænsɪz, (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːnsɪz
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from Late Latin Franciscus (“Frankish”).
Proper noun edit
Frances
- A female given name from Latin, feminine form of Francis.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- Armado. Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
Costard. O! marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.
- 1883, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science, Chatto and Windus, page 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."
- 1961, Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry, →ISBN, page 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.
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Pacific County, Washington, United States.
- A town in south-east South Australia, on the border with Victoria.
Usage notes edit
Also believed to be a surname, but this requires confirmation.
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Translations edit
feminine form of Francis
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Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Frances
- plural of France
- 1967, Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories, page 236:
- The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.
- 1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore, →ISBN, page 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."
- 2013, Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 48:
- Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances? Yes and no.
Anagrams edit
Occitan edit
Proper noun edit
Frances m (Limousin)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Francis
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Further reading edit
- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 306
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
Frances m (plural Franceses, feminine Francesa, feminine plural Francesas)
Adjective edit
Frances (invariable)