charles

Noun

• a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

• king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

• French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)

• the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

• son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)

• King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)

• as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)

• 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)

• King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Charles , Charles River , Charlemagne , Carolus , Charles I , Charles the Great , Jacques Charles , Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles , Prince Charles , Charles Stuart , Charles II , Charles the Bald , Charles VII , Charles IX