charles the great

1. 1.

   king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

   SynonymsCharlemagneCarolusCharlesCharles I

   BroaderHoly Roman EmperorCarolingian

Questions about charles the great

What does charles the great mean?

charles the great means "king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)".

What is another word for charles the great?

Close synonyms include Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charles the great a common word?

charles the great is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.