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Charlotte

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English

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Etymology

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From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.

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Charlotte

  1. A female given name from French.
    • 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 117:
      My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
      In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.
    • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VII, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
      "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."
    • 2007, Sophie Hannah, Hurting Distance, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 225:
      'Can I call you Charlotte?'
      'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
  2. Numerous places:
    1. A civil parish of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. [From 1765]
    3. A parish of Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; in full, Charlotte Parish. Capital: Georgetown.
    4. A city, the county seat of Eaton County, Michigan, United States.
    5. A city, the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States.
      • 2025 August 25, Julie Creswell, “Krispy Kreme Bets on Big-Box Stores to Stay Fresh”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2025:
        The past three decades have been a roller-coaster ride for the Charlotte, N.C., company, aiming to keep investors on a sugar high as it works out how to expand while remaining true to its heritage of serving fresh doughnuts.
      • 2025 September 10, Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, “Suspect in Charlotte train stabbing that killed a Ukrainian refugee is charged with a federal crime. Here’s what we know”, in CNN‎[2]:
        Local, state and national Republicans have accused Lyles and other Democrats who lead Charlotte of installing criminal justice policies at the expense of public safety.
    6. A town, the county seat of Dickson County, Tennessee, United States.

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Noun

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Charlotte (plural Charlottes)

  1. (historical, often attributive) A type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • 1764 Sep, The Scots Magazine:
      The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
    • 1819 Apr, La Belle Assemblée:
      the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther, was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
    • 1968, Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance:
      Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Charlotte.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsjaɾlot/ [ˈs̪jaɾ̪.l̪ot̪]

Proper noun

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Charlotte (Badlit spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜇ᜔ᜎᜓᜆ᜔)

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from French]

Danish

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Etymology

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From French Charlotte.

Proper noun

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Charlotte

  1. a female given name
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References

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  • [3] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 33 806 females with the given name Charlotte have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

French

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Charlotte f

  1. a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Charles

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French Charlotte and charlotte.

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Charlotte f (proper noun, genitive Charlottes or Charlotte, plural Charlottes)

  1. a female given name from French; variant forms Lotte, Lieselotte, Liselotte
  2. The digraph ⟨Ch⟩ in the German spelling alphabet.

Declension

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Declension of Charlotte [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Charlotte die Charlottes
genitive einer der Charlottes, Charlotte der Charlottes
dative einer der Charlotte den Charlottes
accusative eine die Charlotte die Charlottes

Noun

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Charlotte f (genitive Charlotte, plural Charlotten)

  1. charlotte (dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit)

Declension

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Declension of Charlotte [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Charlotte die Charlotten
genitive einer der Charlotte der Charlotten
dative einer der Charlotte den Charlotten
accusative eine die Charlotte die Charlotten

Further reading

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Norwegian

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Proper noun

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Charlotte

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

Swedish

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Charlotte c (genitive Charlottes)

  1. a female given name of French origin
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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Charlotte.

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Charlotte (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜇ᜔ᜎᜓᜆ᜔)

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from French]
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