charles

Noun charles has 9 senses

• charles(n = noun.person) charles ix - King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574);
is a kind of king of france

• charles(n = noun.person) 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);
is a kind of king of france

• charles(n = noun.person) charles i, charles ii, charles the bald - as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877);
is a kind of holy roman emperor, king of france

• charles(n = noun.person) charles ii - King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685);
is a kind of king of england, king of great britain
Derived form adjective carolean₁

• charles(n = noun.person) 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);
is a kind of king of england, king of great britain
Derived form adjective carolean₁

• charles(n = noun.person) prince charles - the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948);
is a kind of prince of wales

• charles(n = noun.person) jacques alexandre cesar charles, jacques charles - French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823);
is a kind of physicist

• charles(n = noun.person) carolus, charlemagne, charles i, charles the great - king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814);
is a kind of carlovingian, carolingian, holy roman emperor
Derived form adjective carolingian₁

• charles(n = noun.object) charles river - a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston;
is a part of bay state, ma, massachusetts, old colony
is a kind of river