Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun charles

9 senses of charles

Sense 1
Charles, Charles IX -- (King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of France -- (the sovereign ruler of France)

Sense 2
Charles, Charles VII -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of France -- (the sovereign ruler of France)

Sense 3
Charles, Charles II, Charles I, Charles the Bald -- (as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877))
       INSTANCE OF=> Holy Roman Emperor -- (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
       INSTANCE OF=> King of France -- (the sovereign ruler of France)

Sense 4
Charles, Charles II -- (King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of England, King of Great Britain -- (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 5
Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuart -- (son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of England, King of Great Britain -- (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 6
Charles, Prince Charles -- (the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948))
       INSTANCE OF=> Prince of Wales -- (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)

Sense 7
Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles -- (French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 8
Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great -- (king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814))
       INSTANCE OF=> Holy Roman Emperor -- (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
       INSTANCE OF=> Carolingian, Carlovingian -- (a member of the Carolingian dynasty)

Sense 9
Charles, Charles River -- (a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")