charles Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
Charles IX.
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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)
Charles VII.
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noun as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
Charles I; Charles the Bald; Charles II.
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noun King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
Charles II.
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noun son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
Charles I; Charles Stuart.
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noun the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
Prince Charles.
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noun French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles; Jacques Charles.
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noun king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
Charles the Great; Charles I; Carolus; Charlemagne.
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noun a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
Charles River.