Caroline

See also: caroline

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Carolus.

Adjective

Caroline (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II.
Synonyms
  • Carolean

Etymology 2

Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. A female given name.
    • 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
      - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes.
    • 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls: Chapter Forty-Four:
      I used to love saying her name. Caroline, with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like crinoline, a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a girl. The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.
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Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Caroline, borrowed from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. a female given name

Danish

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. A female given name of French origin. Diminutive: Line.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ʁɔ.lin/

Proper noun

Caroline f (plural Carolines)

  1. A female given name, one of several feminine equivalents of Charles.
  2. One of the two US States named Carolina in English.

Derived terms

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German

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. A female given name of French origin.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. A female given name, variant spelling of Karoline.

Swedish

Proper noun

Caroline c (genitive Carolines)

  1. A female given name borrowed from French.
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