charles

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A male given name from the Germanic languages.

   “Charles the Great / Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French / Beyond the river Sala, in the year / Eight hundred five.”

   “[…] there never was any person named Charles who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fellow, with a rich, clear, voice, that did you good to hear it, and an eye that looked at you always straight at the face, as much as to say: "I have a clear conscience myself, am afraid of no man, and am altogether above doing a mean action." And thus all the hearty, careless, 'walking gentlemen' of the stage are very certain to be called Charles.”

   “[…] spoke the way the English do, funny, you know? His name was Roger, I think. Or Nigel. Something like that." "How about Charles?" "Charles? Well, yes, it could have been.Charles does sound English, doesn't it? Their prince is named Charles, isn't he?"”

   “That the Koch organization can even attempt this pivot to a less political and more bipartisan stance speaks to the power of what Charles and David Koch built.”

   “In a statement posted on social media, Bondi said that the man, identified in court documents as 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, has since been fired. […] On Wednesday night, the FBI director, Kash Patel, said that Dunn had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. (countable, uncountable)A hamlet in Brayford parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6832).
4. (countable, uncountable)A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
5. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of Floreana: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.