Caroline

See also: caroline

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Carolus + -ine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, New York City, Boston, Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/

Adjective

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

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.

Synonyms

• Carolean

 

Related terms

• Carolingian
• Carolinian

 

Etymology 2

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.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Caroline County

Related terms

• (variants): Carolyn; Carla, Charlene, Charlotte, Karla
• (pet forms): Carey, Caro, Carol, Carrie, Cary, Lina

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡羅琳／卡罗琳 (Kǎluólín)

• Czech: Karolína (cs)
• Danish: Caroline
• Estonian: Karoliina
• Finnish: Karoliina (fi)
• French: Caroline (fr)
• Galician: Carolina (gl) f
• German: Caroline (de)
• Greenlandic: Kaluliit
• Hawaiian: Kealalaina
• Italian: Carolina (it)
• Latin: carola
• Maori: Kararaina
• Norwegian: Karoline (no)
• Polish: Karolina (pl) f
• Portuguese: Carolina (pt)
• Russian: Каролина (ru) f (Karolina)
• Slovak: Karolína
• Spanish: Carolina (es)
• Swedish: Karolina (sv)

Anagrams

• Coraline, Cornelia, Creolian, acrolein, colinear, lonicera

Cebuano

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

Caroline

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

Danish

Alternative forms

• Karoline

Proper noun

Caroline

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Caroline f

1. a female given name of French origin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁɔ.lin/

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Proper noun

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)

Derived terms

• Caroline du Nord
• Caroline du Sud

Related terms

• Carole
• Carolane
• Caro
• Popular double names : Marie-Caroline, Anne-Caroline

Anagrams

• clonerai

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Caroline

1. a female given name from French

Related terms

• Carola, Carolin, Karolin, Karoline, Lina

Norwegian

Proper noun

Caroline

1. a female given name, variant of Karoline

Swedish

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Proper noun

Caroline c (genitive Carolines)

1. a female given name borrowed from French

Anagrams

• Cornelia