FRANC
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)
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"):
Belgian franc (formerly the basic unit of money in Belgium)
Madagascar franc (the basic unit of money in Madagascar)
Mali franc (the basic unit of money in Mali)
Niger franc (the basic unit of money in Niger)
Rwanda franc (the basic unit of money in Rwanda)
Senegalese franc (the basic unit of money in Senegal)
Swiss franc (the basic unit of money in Switzerland)
Togo franc (the basic unit of money in Togo)
Burkina Faso franc (the basic unit of money in Burkina Faso)
Luxembourg franc (formerly the basic unit of money in Luxembourg)
Cote d'Ivoire franc; Ivory Coast franc (the basic unit of money in the Ivory Coast)
Gabon franc (the basic unit of money in Gabon)
Benin franc (the basic unit of money in Benin)
Burundi franc (the basic unit of money in Burundi)
Cameroon franc (the basic unit of money in Cameroon)
Central African Republic franc (the basic unit of money in the Central African Republic)
Chadian franc (the basic unit of money in Chad)
Congo franc (the basic unit of money in the Congo)
Djibouti franc (the basic unit of money in Djibouti)
French franc (formerly the basic unit of money in France)
Guinean franc (the basic unit of money in Guinea)
