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

It sounds like a contradiction, but for Carroll, it's the difference between destiny and graft.

From BBC

Oatly's general manager for the UK and Ireland, Bryan Carroll, said the case was "a way to stifle competition and is not in the interests of the British public".

From BBC

The result, as one of my favorite socially critical musicians, Jim Carroll, told us, is that “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.”

From Salon

Instead, they landed on someone half of Carroll’s age whose background was on the other side of the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal

The best, and most popular, of these was Norman Lear’s generation-gap sitcom “All in the Family,” starring Carroll O’Connor as retrograde bigot Archie Bunker, and Rob Reiner as his liberal son-in-law, Mike.

From The Wall Street Journal