Carlyle

[ kahr-lahyl ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1795–1881, Scottish essayist and historian.
2. a male given name.

Carlyle

/ kɑːˈlaɪl /

noun

1. CarlyleRobert1961MScottishTHEATRE: actor Robert. born 1961, Scottish actor; his work includes the television series Cracker and Hamish Macbeth and the films Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The Beach (2000), and 28 Weeks Later (2007)
2. CarlyleThomas17951881MScottishWRITING: essayistHISTORY: historian Thomas. 1795–1881, Scottish essayist and historian. His works include Sartor Resartus (1833–34), The French Revolution (1837), lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and the History of Frederick the Great (1858–65)

Example Sentences

The man—a Democrat—who founded the Carlyle Group explains why he gives it away.

From The Daily Beast

She told me she loved my books and invited my wife and me to one of her sold-out performances at the Café Carlyle in New York.

From The Daily Beast

No doubt Carlyle enjoys a cozy relationship with the corridors of power.

From The Daily Beast

The Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private-equity firm that manages in excess of $150 billion, is going public.

From The Daily Beast

What does it mean that the new CEO of GM is Daniel F. Akerson, a managing director at the Carlyle Group?

From The Daily Beast

They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.

From Project Gutenberg

On the other hand Carlyle uttered fierce denunciations against it.

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Carlyle said of a dog that howled at the moon, "He would have been a poet, if he could have found a publisher."

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Edward Fitzgerald, the friend of Thackeray and Carlyle, himself an author of no mean repute, lived close by.

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Carlyle was never more scornful, never more cruelly vivid, than in his description of this event.

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