Charles (n.)

  1. King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

    [ Syn: charles , charles ix ]

  2. King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne dArc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years War (1403-1461)

    [ Syn: charles , charles vii ]

  3. as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)

    [ Syn: charles , charles ii , charles i , charles the bald ]

  4. King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)

    [ Syn: charles , charles ii ]

  5. son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)

    [ Syn: charles , charles i , charles stuart ]

  6. the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

    [ Syn: charles , prince charles ]

  7. French physicist and author of Charless law which anticipated Gay-Lussacs law (1746-1823)

    [ Syn: charles , jacques charles , jacques alexandre cesar charles ]

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

    [ Syn: charlemagne , carolus , charles , charles i , charles the great ]

  9. a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

    [ Syn: charles , charles river ]

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