Charles

/tʃɑrlz/

/tʃɑlz/

Other forms: Charleses; Charless

Definitions of Charles

1. noun

   king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
   synonyms: Carolus, Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great

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   Carlovingian, Carolingian

   a member of the Carolingian dynasty

   Holy Roman Emperor

   sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire
2. noun

   as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
   synonyms: Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald

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   Holy Roman Emperor

   sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire

   King of France

   the sovereign ruler of France
3. noun

   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)
   synonyms: Charles VII

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   King of France

   the sovereign ruler of France
4. noun

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

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   King of France

   the sovereign ruler of France
5. noun

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

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   King of England, King of Great Britain

   the sovereign ruler of England
6. noun

   King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
   synonyms: Charles II

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   King of England, King of Great Britain

   the sovereign ruler of England
7. noun

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

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   Prince of Wales

   the male heir apparent of the British sovereign
8. noun

   French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
   synonyms: Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles

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   physicist

   a scientist trained in physics
9. noun

   a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
   synonyms: Charles River

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   river

   a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)