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Caroline
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caroline
English
Etymology 1
en la carolīnus.adj /8505369892
Pronunciation
en /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ RP,NYC,Boston,Southern US
en /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Caroline.wav Southern England
Adjective
-
en Carolean relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves.
en 1921 w:George Saintsbury Minor Poets of the Caroline Period III Introduction to Henry King https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46856/pg46856-images.html For that poem, though in certain ‘strange and high’ qualities it is the inferior of the best jets of the Caroline genius, is one of the most faultless and perfect things in this or indeed in any period of English poetry, and may be said to impart the Caroline essence in a form that can be (in the medical sense) ‘borne’ by all who have any feeling for poetry at all, as hardly anything else does.
Noun
en Carolean.
en 1921 w:George Saintsbury Minor Poets of the Caroline Period III A Lady Weeping https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46856/pg46856-images.html The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines.
Synonyms
en Carolean
Derived terms
en Caroline minuscule
Related terms
en Carolinian Carolingian
Etymology 2
Borrowed in the 17th century from en fr Caroline, from en it Carolina or its etymon en la Carolīna, from en la Carolus Charles, from en gmh Karl, + la -īna feminine diminutive suffix.48 1 en Carol<pos:male given name> -ine<id:female><pos:feminine diminutive suffix>. en Carolina.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ /ˈkæɹ.əˌlɪn/ RP,NYC,Boston,Southern US
en /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ GA
Proper noun
~ s
en female Germanic languages.
en 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.
en 1999 Andrew Pyper Lost Girls 44 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.
en-GB Victoria Bekiempis ‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here w:The Guardian 2023-09-30 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/30/what-is-sam-bankman-fried-trial-for-new-york-ftx-crypto 0261-3077 Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover. https://web.archive.org/web/20240105092327/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/30/what-is-sam-bankman-fried-trial-for-new-york-ftx-crypto
en place c/USA:
en town co/Tompkins County s/New York.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Venice co/Seneca County s/Ohio.
en CDP town:pref/Grant co/Shawano County s/Wisconsin.
en hamlet co/Clearwater County p/Alberta c/Canada.
en locality s/South Australia; see District Council of Grant.
en rural locality north of x/Dipton r/Southland c/New Zealand. NZ Topo Map scroll up
Derived terms
en Caroline County
en Caroline Springs
en Klaroline Steroline
Related terms
variants en Carolyn; Carla, Charlene, Charlotte, Karla
pet forms en Carey, en Caro, en Carol, Carrie, Cary, Lina
Translations
female given name
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 卡羅琳 Kǎluólín
Czech: cs Karolína
Danish: da Caroline
Estonian: et Karoliina
Finnish: fi Karoliina
French: fr Caroline
Galician: gl Carolina f
German: de Caroline
Greek: el Καρολίνα f
Greenlandic: kl Kaluliit
Hawaiian: haw Kealalaina
Italian: it Carolina
Latin: la carola
Māori: mi Kararaina
Norwegian: no Karoline
Polish: pl Karolina f
Portuguese: pt Carolina
Russian: ru Каролина f
Slovak: sk Karolína
Spanish: es Carolina
Swedish: sv Karolina
References
Anagrams
en aceilnor Coraline Cornelia Creolian acrolein colinear lonicera
en eponyms
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb en Caroline, borrowed from the ceb fr - form of en Carolina, feminine derivative of la Carolus, the ceb la - equivalent of en Charles, which came from ceb gmh Karl.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb female English < French < Germanic languages
Danish
Alternative forms
da Karoline
Proper noun
da female of da fr - origin. Diminutive: Line
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Caroline.ogg
Proper noun
f
nl female of nl fr - origin
French
Etymology
From fr it Carolina or its etymon fr la Carolīna.48 1
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Caroline.wav France
Proper noun
f #s
fr female Charles
fr one of the two <<states>> of the <<c/USA>> named Carolina in English Carolina
Derived terms
Anne-Caroline, Marie-Caroline popular double names
fr Caroline du Nord
fr Caroline du Sud
Related terms
fr Carole
fr Carolane
fr Caro
References
Anagrams
fr clonerai
fr exonyms
German
Pronunciation
de De-Caroline.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de female French
Related terms
de Carola, de Carolin, de Karolin, de Karoline, de Lina
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun
no female Karoline
Swedish
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Caroline.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female borrowed from sv fr -
Anagrams
sv aceilnor Cornelia