Charles

[chahrlz, sharl]

noun

1. Jacques Alexandre César 1746–1823, French physicist and inventor.

2. Ray Ray Charles Robinson, 1930–2004, U.S. blues singer and pianist.

3. Cape, a cape in E Virginia, N of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.

4. a river in E Massachusetts, flowing between Boston and Cambridge into the Atlantic. 47 miles (75 km) long.

5. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “man.”

Charles

/ tʃɑːlz /

noun

1. Prince of Wales. born 1948, son of Elizabeth II; heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He married (1981) Lady Diana Spencer; they separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1996; their son, Prince William of Wales, was born in 1982 and their second son, Prince Henry, in 1984; married (2005) Camilla Parker Bowles

2. Ray real name Ray Charles Robinson. 1930–2004, US singer, pianist, and songwriter, whose work spans jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and country music

Charles

1. French physicist and inventor who formulated Charles's law in 1787. In 1783 he became the first person to use hydrogen in balloons for flight.

Example Sentences

King Charles's coat of arms will feature on the front of all new passports from December, the Home Office has said.

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Charles Schwab and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing release earnings on Thursday and American Express closes out the week on Friday.

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Frederick Douglass’s son Charles, we learn, helped organize a black team in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War.

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But the text messages with the trust’s trustee, Charles Loper III, show otherwise.

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Dominic Lawrance, a lawyer at the London firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said that more than a quarter of his active “non-dom” clients have left the U.K. due to the tax changes.

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