Associations to the word «Franck»

Dictionary definition

FRANCK, noun. French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890).
FRANCK, noun. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats