CAROLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caroline mean? 

• CAROLINE (adjective)
  The adjective CAROLINE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England

  Familiarity information: CAROLINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAROLINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Carolean; Caroline

Pertainym:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

I did not think Caroline in spirits, were her words, but she was very glad to see me, and reproached me for giving her no notice of my coming to London.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The eldest, the Beauty is here, said Traddles, in a low confidential voice, Caroline.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. March smiled, as if well pleased, and Jo clapped her hands, exclaiming, with a laugh, You are almost equal to Caroline Percy, who was a pattern of prudence!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I saw you the other day as you rode through the town—Mrs. Otway, I protest!—and good Mr. Otway, and Miss Otway and Miss Caroline.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Denotes the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Carolinian, NCI Thesaurus)

Jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from Caroline.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They were all pretty, and Miss Caroline was very handsome; but there was a loving, cheerful, fireside quality in Sophy's bright looks, which was better than that, and which assured me that my friend had chosen well.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)