Caroline

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Related terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 Quotations 1.3 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Alternative spellings 2.2 Proper noun 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Proper noun 3.2.1 Related terms 3.2.2 Derived terms 4 German 4.1 Proper noun 4.1.1 Related terms 5 Norwegian 5.1 Proper noun 6 Swedish 6.1 Proper noun

[edit] English

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Caroline (comparative more Caroline, superlative most Caroline)

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

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• Carolean

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Singular Caroline

Plural -

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.

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

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• 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.

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• Cornelia

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• Karoline

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Caroline

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

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• IPA: /kaʁɔlin/

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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.

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• Carole
• Carolane
• Caro

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• Caroline du Nord
• Caroline du Sud

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Caroline

1. A female given name of French origin.

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• Carola, Carolin, Karolin, Karoline, Lina

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Caroline

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

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Caroline

1. A female given name borrowed from French.