Definitions for charles



Overview of noun charles

The noun charles has 9 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Charles, Charles IX

(King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574))

2. Charles, Charles VII

(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))

3. Charles, Charles II, Charles I, Charles the Bald

(as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877))

4. Charles, Charles II

(King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685))

5. Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuart

(son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649))

6. Charles, Prince Charles

(the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948))

7. Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles

(French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823))

8. Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great

(king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814))

9. Charles, Charles River

(a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston)

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