FRANC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does franc mean? 

• FRANC (noun)
  The noun FRANC has 1 sense:

1. the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes

  Familiarity information: FRANC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRANC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("franc" is a kind of...):

monetary unit (a unit of money)

Meronyms (parts of "franc"):

centime (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "franc"):

Cote d'Ivoire franc; Ivory Coast franc (the basic unit of money in the Ivory Coast)

Guinean franc (the basic unit of money in Guinea)

Burkina Faso franc (the basic unit of money in Burkina Faso)

Togo franc (the basic unit of money in Togo)

Swiss franc (the basic unit of money in Switzerland)

Senegalese franc (the basic unit of money in Senegal)

Rwanda franc (the basic unit of money in Rwanda)

Niger franc (the basic unit of money in Niger)

Mali franc (the basic unit of money in Mali)

Madagascar franc (the basic unit of money in Madagascar)

Luxembourg franc (formerly the basic unit of money in Luxembourg)

Belgian franc (formerly the basic unit of money in Belgium)

Gabon franc (the basic unit of money in Gabon)

French franc (formerly the basic unit of money in France)

Djibouti franc (the basic unit of money in Djibouti)

Congo franc (the basic unit of money in the Congo)

Chadian franc (the basic unit of money in Chad)

Central African Republic franc (the basic unit of money in the Central African Republic)

Cameroon franc (the basic unit of money in Cameroon)

Burundi franc (the basic unit of money in Burundi)

Benin franc (the basic unit of money in Benin)

 Context examples 

“Not another word shall I speak,” said Aylward; “but here is a franc for thee and I crave thy blessing.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)