Charles
char·les
noun
French physicist and uathor of Charles''s law which anticipated Gay-Lussac''s law (1746-1823)
Origin
From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Frankish and Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”); compare the English word churl and the German Kerl. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a clipping of the original name King Charles's Island, granted in honor of Charles II of England.
Phrases
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
- Charles City
- Charles County
- Charles Darwin's frog
- Charles Mix County
- Charles Sturt
- Charles Sturt University
- Charles the Great
Related words
Word family
- charleston
- Charles's law
- Charles's Wain
- Charlestown Navy Yard
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
- Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- Charles Augustus Lindbergh
- Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Bullfinch
- Charles Camille Saint-Saens
- Charles Christopher Parker
- Charles Cornwallis
- Charles Dana Gibson
- Charles Darwin
- Charles de Gaulle
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Parts
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