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Caroline en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (Boston, New-York-City, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-US)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin carolīnus.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”).
    • For that poem, though in certain ‘strange and high’ qualities it is the inferior of the best jets of the Caroline genius, is one of the most faultless and perfect things in this or indeed in any period of English poetry, and may be said to impart the Caroline essence in a form that can be (in the medical sense) ‘borne’ by all who have any feeling for poetry at all, as hardly anything else does. 1921, George Saintsbury, “Introduction to Henry King”, in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, volume III:

Synonyms

Carolean

Caroline en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (Boston, New-York-City, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-US)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin carolīnus.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Carolean.
    • The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines. 1921, George Saintsbury, “A Lady Weeping”, in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, volume III:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Carolines Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Caroline minuscule

Relateds

Carolinian · Carolingian

Synonyms

Carolean · Carolean

Caroline en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (General-American)
  • /ˈkæɹ.əˌlɪn/ (Boston, New-York-City, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-US)
  • /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (Boston, New-York-City, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-US)

Etymology

Borrowed in the 17th century from French Caroline, from Italian Carolina or its etymon Latin Carolīna, from Latin Carolus (“Charles”), from Middle High German Karl, + -īna (feminine diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, Carol (male given name) + -ine (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of Carolina.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover. 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2024:
    • - - - 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. 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
    • 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. 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 44, in Lost Girls:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A town in Tompkins County, New York.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in the town of Grant, Shawano County, Wisconsin.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A hamlet in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A locality in South Australia; see District Council of Grant.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A rural locality north of Dipton, Southland, New Zealand.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Carolines Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Caroline Springs · Caroline County

Relateds

Carolyn · Carol (pet forms) · Carla · Charlotte · Carey (pet forms) · Charlene · Cary (pet forms) · Carrie (pet forms) · Caro (pet forms) · Lina (pet forms) · Karla

Translations (21)

sv Karolina (female given name) · fi Karoliina (female given name) · de Caroline (female given name) · kl Kaluliit (female given name) · cs Karolína (female given name) · fr Caroline (female given name) · sk Karolína (female given name) · pl Karolina (female given name) · no Karoline (female given name) · et Karoliina (female given name) · haw Kealalaina (female given name) · la carola (female given name) · it Carolina (female given name) · gl Carolina (female given name) · el Καρολίνα (female given name) · ru Каролина (female given name) · da Caroline (female given name) · cmn 卡羅琳 /卡罗琳 (female given name) · pt Carolina (female given name) · mi Kararaina (female given name) · es Carolina (female given name)