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

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

“It’s a way for them to get scale,” said Michael Carroll, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nicks eventually lost his job too, but after a year with Don Laws, the Chins — mother and daughter were always a team — returned to Nicks, then Carroll again.

From Los Angeles Times