charles meaning and definition

CHARLES noun

Definition of Charles (noun)

1. King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
   • synonyms: Charles IX
2. King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
   • synonyms: Charles VII
3. as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
   • synonyms: Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald
4. King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
   • synonyms: Charles II
5. son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
   • synonyms: Charles I, Charles Stuart
6. the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
   • synonyms: Prince Charles
7. French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
   • synonyms: Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles
8. king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
   • synonyms: Carolus, Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great
9. a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
   • synonyms: Charles River