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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Charles, Charles IXnoun

    King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

  2. Charles, Charles VIInoun

    King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)

  3. Charles, Charles II, Charles I, Charles the Baldnoun

    as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)

  4. Charles, Charles IInoun

    King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)

  5. Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuartnoun

    son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)

  6. Charles, Prince Charlesnoun

    the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

  7. Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charlesnoun

    French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)

  8. Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Greatnoun

    king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

  9. Charles, Charles Rivernoun

    a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

Wiktionary

  1. Charlesnoun

    A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    Charles the Great / Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French / Beyond the river Sala, in the year / Eight hundred five.

  2. Charlesnoun

    A patronymic surname.

  3. Etymology: From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karlaz ("free man") ; compare the English word churl and the German Kerl.

ChatGPT

  1. charles

    Charles is typically a male given name derived from the Germanic name Karl, meaning "free man". It could also refer to a specific individual, typically someone well-known such as a celebrity or historical figure. Furthermore, it could also represent places or things that are named after a person called Charles. The context in which the term is used would determine its exact meaning.

Wikidata

  1. Charles

    Charles is a neighborhood in northern Providence, Rhode Island. Along with Wanskuck, it comprises what is sometimes referred to as the North End. To the west Charles is partitioned from Wanskuck by Route 146, while the Chad Brown public housing complex separates Charles from Smith Hill to the south, and the West River and Interstate 95 bounds the area to the east. The city limits abutting the city of North Providence bound Charles to the north.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Charles

    a French physicist, born at Beaugency; was the first to apply hydrogen to the inflation of balloons (1746-1823).

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CHARLES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Charles is ranked #548 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Charles surname appeared 61,211 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 21 would have the surname Charles.

    52.9% or 32,417 total occurrences were Black.
    33.6% or 20,622 total occurrences were White.
    7.9% or 4,836 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 1,451 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2% or 1,267 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1% or 618 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Charles' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1060

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Charles' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3941

Anagrams for Charles »

  1. larches

  2. clasher

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Charles in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Charles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Charles in a Sentence

  1. Sopan Mare:

    At the time of Prince Charles' wedding, the royal family treated us like family. As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed, it almost seems like it's a wedding in our family.

  2. Gavin Newsom:

    Ms. Leslie Van Houten and the Charles Manson family committed some of the most notorious and brutal killings in The California history, when considered as a whole, I find the evidence shows that she currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at Van Houten productive time.

  3. Dean Koontz:

    I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution.

  4. Fox News contributor:

    Charles Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor said that Tuesday’s revelation is simply part of a larger pattern of behavior by the former secretary of state :.

  5. Janice Hahn:

    The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires.

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