Charles

noun

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms charles ix

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. 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)

   noun.person

   Synonyms charles vii

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms charles i charles ii charles the bald

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms charles ii

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms charles i charles stuart

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms prince charles

   Source: WordNet 3.0

7. French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)

   noun.person

   Synonyms jacques alexandre cesar charles jacques charles

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.person

   Synonyms carolus charlemagne charles i charles the great

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.object

   Synonyms charles river

   Source: WordNet 3.0