Carroll

American  

[kar-uhl] / ˈkær əl /

noun

1. Charles, 1737–1832, American patriot and legislator.

2. Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

3. Also Carrol. a male or female given name.

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Carroll British  

/ ˈkærəl /

noun

1. Lewis. real name the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 1832–98, English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

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Example Sentences

“A 5% bump, especially in the retail industry where margins are thin, is a big deal,” says Dmitry Mitrofanov, an assistant professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and one of the paper’s authors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Munnell recently retired as the Peter F. Drucker professor of management sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and was the founder of the college’s Center for Retirement Research.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

In the third, however, Diamondbacks star Corbin Carroll sent a cutter the other way, and it bounced off the top of the left-field wall into the home bullpen for Arizona’s first run of the night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

This is apparently what the DOJ plans to hang a prosecution against Carroll on.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

I took the bag out to where Simpson and Lieutenant Carroll waited.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers