What does carter mean?

Definitions for carter
ˈkɑr tərcarter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Carter, Howard Carternoun

    Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)

  2. Carter, Jimmy Carter, James Earl Carter, James Earl Carter Jr., President Carternoun

    39th President of the United States (1924-)

  3. carternoun

    someone whose work is driving carts

Wiktionary

  1. Carternoun

    for someone who was a carter.

  2. Carternoun

    transferred from the surname.

  3. carternoun

    A person who transported goods on a horse-drawn cart

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Carternoun

    The man who drives a cart, or whose trade it is to drive a cart.

    Etymology: from cart.

    If he love her not,
    Let me be no assistant for a state,
    But keep a farm, and carters. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    The divine goodness never fails, provided that, according to the advice of Hercules to the carter, we put our own shoulders to the work. Roger L'Estrange.

    The criminals are seiz’d upon the place:
    Carter and host confronted face to face. Dryden.

    It is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses, to make them carry their burdens cheerfully. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Carternoun

    a charioteer

  2. Carternoun

    a man who drives a cart; a teamster

  3. Carternoun

    any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman

  4. Carternoun

    a British fish; the whiff

Editors Contribution

  1. Carter

    He big mean

    Carter is a douche


    Submitted by 1016454 on January 30, 2020  

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Who Was Who?

  1. Carter

    A doctor who wants everybody to have liver trouble.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CARTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Carter is ranked #49 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Carter surname appeared 376,966 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 128 would have the surname Carter.

    58.2% or 219,394 total occurrences were White.
    35.5% or 134,162 total occurrences were Black.
    2.6% or 9,990 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 8,821 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.7% or 2,940 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 1,696 total occurrences were Asian.

Anagrams for carter »

  1. crater

  2. Crater

  3. tracer

  4. arrect

  5. recart

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carter in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of carter in a Sentence

  1. The Carter Center:

    At the request of President Carter, and for humanitarian purposes, Mr. Gomes was granted amnesty by the chairman of the National Defense Commission, Kim Jong-Il.

  2. Trump Pentagon:

    Today, the Department of Defense announced that it intends to appoint former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Ambassador Thomas Carter, Dr. Edward Luttwak, Mr. Scott O'Grady, Mr. Thomas Stewart, the Honorable Randy Forbes, Senator Robert Smith and Ambassador Charles Glazer to the Defense Policy Board.

  3. Emily Staub:

    It’s an audacious and mind-boggling idea, i’m not just talking about just him. I’m talking about a whole bunch of people with the Carter Center that decided that they were going to eradicate a disease that has no vaccine, no immunity, no medication. It’s thousands of years old and has a one-year incubation. The odds are totally stacked against you. And the people that suffer from it speak thousands of different languages, and some have never had outsiders interact with them.

  4. Sam Therrell:

    The gist of it was that due to Tonja Carter condition, they were restricting visits to Tonja Carter very closest friends.

  5. Lindsey Graham:

    I just want an answer. I just want to know what is going on here, you had (former Director of National Intelligence James) Clapper say there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign or Trump Tower. You've got press reports a FISA warrant was issued for Carter Page because of his ties to Russia. I just want to know what happened. And if we can't do it in an open session, let's do it in a closed session.

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