Caroline

See also: caroline

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Carolus.

Adjective

Caroline ‎(comparative more Caroline, superlative most Caroline)

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

Synonyms

• Carolean

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.
   • 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
• Estonian: Karoliina
• Finnish: Karoliina (fi)
• French: Caroline (fr)
• German: Caroline (de)
• Greenlandic: Kaluliit
• Hawaiian: Kealalaina
• Italian: Carolina (it)

• Latin: carola
• Maori: Kararaina
• Norwegian: Karoline (no)
• Polish: Karolina (pl) f
• Portuguese: Carolina (pt)
• Russian: Каролина (ru) f ‎(Karolina)
• Slovak: Karolína
• 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^(key): /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.