Carroll

[kar-uhl]

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.

Carroll

/ 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)

Example Sentences

His surrealist reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian children’s novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” distorts the nonsense and whimsy: melting clocks and anxious White Rabbits, sinister playing cards and caterpillars on mushrooms.

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Carroll Baker, who co-starred with Dean in his last movie, “Giant,” recalled how the cast learned of his death.

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As lunchtime shoppers looked on, two gunmen got out and shot Carroll 13 times.

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He’s essentially doing the same thing that Alice is doing, chasing the rabbit down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s novel.

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After the game, Raiders coach Pete Carroll called the report “not accurate” and said that while he and Kelly speak with Brady “regularly,” those conversations are “about life and football and whatever.”

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