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Charles the Great

American  

noun

  1. Charlemagne.


Charles the Great British  

noun

  1. another name for Charlemagne

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His name was French for Charles the Great.

From Seattle Times Oct. 1, 2021

With a treasure-trove of antique detail, she shows that just as life under Charles the Great had been purposeful and pious, life without him was chaos.

From Time Magazine Archive

And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new-made empire of Charles the Great was opening Europe once more to a settled life and the possibilities of traffic, and the Danish merchants seized the beginnings of the new trade.

From Irish Nationality by Green, Alice Stopford

The few marble columns which Charles the Great carried away from Rome, as well as from Ravenna, can have gone but a very little way towards accounting for so vast a havoc.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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