Caroline

See also caroline

English

Adjective

Caroline (comparative more Caroline, superlative most Caroline)

1. Relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II.

Synonyms

• Carolean

Proper noun

Caroline

1. A female given name. Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.
   • 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.

Related terms

• (variants): Carolyn; Carla, Charlene, Charlotte, Karla
• (pet forms): Carey, Caro, Carol,Carrie, Cary, Lina

Translations

female given name

• Czech: Karolína (cs)
• Danish: Caroline (da)
• Estonian: Karoliina (et)
• Finnish: Karoliina (fi)
• French: Caroline (fr)
• German: Caroline (de)
• Hawaiian: Kealalaina
• Italian: Carolina (it)

• Latin: carola (la)
• Norwegian: Karoline (no)
• Polish: Karolina (pl) f
• Portuguese: Carolina (pt)
• Russian: Каролина (ru) f (Karolina)
• Slovak: Karolína (sk)
• Spanish: Carolina (es)
• Swedish: Karolina (sv)

Anagrams

• acrolein
• colinear
• Cornelia
• lonicera

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Danish

Alternative forms

• Karoline

Proper noun

Caroline

1. A female given name of French origin. Diminutive: Line.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaʁɔlin/

Proper noun

Caroline f (plural Carolines)

1. A female given name, one of several feminine equivalents of Charles.
2. One of the two US States named Carolina in English.

Related terms

• Carole
• Carolane
• Caro

Derived terms

• Caroline du Nord
• Caroline du Sud

Anagrams

• clonerai

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German

Proper noun

Caroline

1. A female given name of French origin.

Related terms

• Carola, Carolin, Karolin, Karoline, Lina

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Caroline

1. A female given name, variant spelling of Karoline.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Caroline

1. A female given name borrowed from French.