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Caroline

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin Carolus + -ine.

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Caroline (not comparable)

  1. 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”)
    • 1921, George Saintsbury, “Introduction to Henry King”, in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period‎[1], volume III:
      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.

Noun

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Caroline (plural Carolines)

  1. Synonym of Carolean
    • 1921, George Saintsbury, “A Lady Weeping”, in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period‎[2], volume III:
      The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.

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Caroline (plural Carolines)

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
      - - - 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.
    • 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 44, in Lost Girls:
      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.
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Etymology

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From English Caroline, borrowed from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.

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Caroline

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from French, in turn from the Germanic languages]

Danish

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Caroline

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

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Caroline f

  1. a female given name of French origin

French

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Caroline f (plural Carolines)

  1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Charles
  2. Carolina (one of the two states of the United States named Carolina in English)

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German

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Caroline

  1. a female given name from French
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Norwegian

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Caroline

  1. a female given name, variant of Karoline

Swedish

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Caroline c (genitive Carolines)

  1. a female given name borrowed from French

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