charles Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
    Charles IX.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. noun King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
    Charles II.
  5. 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.
  6. noun the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
    Prince Charles.
  7. noun French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
    Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles; Jacques Charles.
  8. noun king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
    Charles the Great; Charles I; Carolus; Charlemagne.
  9. noun a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
    Charles River.

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