Caroline

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English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Latin Carolus + -ine

Adjective

Caroline (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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.

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 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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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Caroline, borrowed from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

Danish

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Caroline

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

Dutch

Proper noun

Caroline f

  1. a female given name of French origin

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ʁɔ.lin/
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Proper noun

Caroline f (plural Carolines)

  1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Charles
  2. Carolina (one of the two states of the United States named Carolina in English)

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German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. a female given name from French

Norwegian

Proper noun

Caroline

  1. a female given name, variant of Karoline

Swedish

Proper noun

Caroline c (genitive Carolines)

  1. a female given name borrowed from French

Anagrams

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