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English noun: Charles | |||
| 1. | Charles (person) King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles IX | ||
| Instance hypernym | King of France | ||
| 2. | Charles (person) 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) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles VII | ||
| Instance hypernym | King of France | ||
| 3. | Charles (person) as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald | ||
| Instance hypernym | Holy Roman Emperor, King of France | ||
| 4. | Charles (person) King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles II | ||
| Instance hypernym | King of England, King of Great Britain | ||
| 5. | Charles (person) son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles I, Charles Stuart | ||
| Instance hypernym | King of England, King of Great Britain | ||
| 6. | Charles (person) the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) | ||
| Synonyms | Prince Charles | ||
| Instance hypernym | Prince of Wales | ||
| 7. | Charles (person) French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) | ||
| Synonyms | Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles | ||
| Instance hypernym | physicist | ||
| 8. | Charles (person) king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814) | ||
| Synonyms | Carolus, Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great | ||
| Instance hypernym | Carlovingian, Carolingian, Holy Roman Emperor | ||
| 9. | Charles (object) a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston | ||
| Synonyms | Charles River | ||
| Instance hypernym | river | ||
| Part meronym | Bay State, MA, Massachusetts, Old Colony | ||
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