carolean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.
adj
Of or relating to King Charles I, Charles II, or Charles III.
noun
A contemporary of King Charles I, II, or III.
Example Sentences
- "Using the still unfamiliar term, she declared that the nation was now entering a new “Carolean age”."
- "I have every confidence that in this new Carolean era, the United Kingdom will continue to prosper amid lasting peace and stability under Your Majesty’s leadership."
- "The Carolean court and all that King Charles III holds dear will change significantly in the reign of King William V and Queen Catherine. William will have to be a very different monarch."
- "William Cartwright, an elegant minor poet, and one who was to the Caroleans what Tennyson was to the Victorians, is as good an index to the transitional period between poetry and verse as any in the century."
- "More than three thousand Caroleans froze to death up here in the winter of 1718–19. We still find their remains sometimes."
- "the Carolean army"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin