caroline
see also: Caroline
Pronunciation Noun
Caroline
Pronunciation Adjective
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see also: Caroline
Pronunciation Noun
caroline (plural carolines)
- (historical) An old silver coin of Italy.
- 1826, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (volume 25, page 451)
- […] the publication of the book is permitted, and a tax of four carolines on each volume must be paid by the publisher. This sum is exorbitant, when we consider the cheapness of Italian books.
- 1826, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (volume 25, page 451)
Caroline
Pronunciation Adjective
caroline (not comparable)
- Relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II.
- Carolean
- 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.
- 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
- (variants) Carolyn; Carla, Charlene, Charlotte, Karla
- (pet forms) Carey, Caro, Carol, Carrie, Cary, Lina
- French: Caroline
- German: Caroline
- Italian: Carolina
- Portuguese: Carolina
- Russian: Каролина
- Spanish: Carolina
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