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CHARLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
Synonyms:
Charles; Charles River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Charles" is a part of...):
Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
Synonyms:
Carolus; Charlemagne; Charles; Charles I; Charles the Great
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Carlovingian; Carolingian (a member of the Carolingian dynasty)
Holy Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
Derivation:
Carolingian (of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father)
Sense 3
Meaning:
French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
Synonyms:
Charles; Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles; Jacques Charles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
Synonyms:
Charles; Prince Charles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Prince of Wales (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
Synonyms:
Charles; Charles I; Charles Stuart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Derivation:
Carolean (of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England)
Sense 6
Meaning:
King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
Synonyms:
Charles; Charles II
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Derivation:
Carolean (of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England)
Sense 7
Meaning:
As Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
Synonyms:
Charles; Charles I; Charles II; Charles the Bald
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Holy Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
King of France (the sovereign ruler of France)
Sense 8
Meaning:
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; Charles VII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of France (the sovereign ruler of France)
Sense 9
Meaning:
King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
Synonyms:
Charles; Charles IX
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of France (the sovereign ruler of France)
Context examples:
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) (copyright 1991 Charles S. Cleeland, PhD, Pain Research Group, All Right Reserved).
(Brief Pain Inventory Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Did you ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any one loitering about Charles Street?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Charles Wondji, a mosquito geneticist at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England, notes that resistance to pyrethroid insecticides occurred rapidly, in about eight years.
(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)
With the swiftness and wide-reaching of multitudinous thought Charles Butler's whole life was telescoped upon his vision.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But we really don't know why, said Charles B. Stephensen, research leader of the Immunity and Disease Prevention Research Unit at the ARS Western Regional Human Nutrition Center in Davis, California.
(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands during his Voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he could famously get close enough to throw his hat over the birds.
(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)
The emperor Charles V. made almost the same observation, when he said “that if he were to speak to his horse, it should be in High-Dutch.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Some of them were discovered by English naturalist Charles Darwin.
(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)
One of the farms which he held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was also an ex-Australian.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Married Edith, daughter of Sir Charles Appledore, 1888.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
