charleston

1. 1.

   dance the Charleston

   Broaderdance

Other forms of charleston

plural

charlestons·

past tense

charlestonned·

present participle

charlestonning·

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.

Questions about charleston

What does charleston mean?

charleston means "state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in charleston?

charleston has 2 syllables: charle-ston. The stress falls on "charle". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɑɹlstən/.

What is another word for charleston?

Close synonyms include capital of West Virginia. 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 charleston a common word?

charleston is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.