CHARLOTTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Charlotte mean? 

• CHARLOTTE (noun)
  The noun CHARLOTTE has 2 senses:

1. the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina

2. a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard

  Familiarity information: CHARLOTTE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARLOTTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Charlotte; Queen City

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Charlotte" is a part of...):

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("charlotte" is a kind of...):

afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "charlotte"):

charlotte russe (lady fingers enclosing Bavarian cream)

 Context examples 

Charlotte is very pretty, I can tell you.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“You began the evening well, Charlotte,” said Mrs. Bennet with civil self-command to Miss Lucas.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The last two days he was always by the side of Charlotte Davis: I pitied his taste, but took no notice of him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Dr Emily Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and Dr Charlotte Kenchington from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada examined fossils from Mistaken Point in south-eastern Newfoundland, one of the richest sites of Ediacaran fossils in the world.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)

Thinking, as I did, that he was speaking of our own old Queen Charlotte, I could make no meaning out of this; but my father told me afterwards that both Nelson and Lady Hamilton had conceived an extraordinary affection for the Queen of Naples, and that it was the interests of her little kingdom which he had so strenuously at heart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dave he was called, and he ate and slept, or yawned between times, and took interest in nothing, not even when the Narwhal crossed Queen Charlotte Sound and rolled and pitched and bucked like a thing possessed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

Charlotte laughed heartily to think that her husband could not get rid of her; and exultingly said, she did not care how cross he was to her, as they must live together.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Charlotte did not stay much longer, and Elizabeth was then left to reflect on what she had heard.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How charming it will be, said Charlotte, when he is in Parliament!—won't it?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)