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1. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A male given name from Latin

   Saint Francis be my speed! how oft tonight / Have my old feet stumbled at graves!

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

2. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A female given name from Latin, Alternative spelling of Frances.

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

3. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A patronymic surname.

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

4. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A ghost town in Nebraska.

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

5. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

6. Francis(ProperNoun)

   A town in Utah.

   Etymology: From Latin Franciscus ("French(man)") (from Francia ("France") , originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

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1. Francis

   Francis is a 1950 black-and-white comedy film that launched the Francis the Talking Mule series. It stars Donald O'Connor as an American soldier who gets into trouble when he insists an Army mule named Francis can speak. The distinctive voice of Francis was provided by Chill Wills. It was directed by Arthur Lubin.

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1. francis

   Song lyrics by francis -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by francis on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Francis' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3728

How to pronounce Francis?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Francis in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Francis in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Francis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Francis in a Sentence

1. Father Paredes:

   Pope Francis is truly Jesuit. He is ready to connect with simple ideas, that he always has in his heart and his mind.

2. Ivo Markovic:

   Our politicians are hopelessly unable to hear and understand Pope Francis; they can only instrumentalize faith and God in the manner they have done so since the beginning.

3. Pope Francis:

   But when Pope Benedict became Pope Francis, the first thing( he said was) bring me this from the archives and Pope Benedict began, pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

4. Malik Yusef:

   You can't take -- unfalrly and unjustly -- your portion (of the planet), plus other people's portions away from them. It's a non-political issue. I don't think that should be an argument about that, it's an erroneous charge to say 'oh, (Pope Francis) is getting political because he's talking about the planet we live on.' Be serious!

5. Bernie Sanders:

   Well, I am who I am. And what I believe in, and what my spirituality is about is that we're all in this together. That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people, and you know, this is not Judaism. This is what Pope Francis is talking about, that we cannot worship just billionaires and the making of more and more money. Life is more than that.

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