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say it: chahrlz
charles is a noun meaning "King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɑɹlz/ — chahrlz. It carries 9 recorded senses.
King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for charles come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.