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Carolean vs Caroline - What's the difference?

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Caroline is a synonym of carolean.


Carolean is often a misspelling of caroline.


Carolean has no English definition.

As an adjective Caroline is

relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II.

As a proper noun Caroline is

{{given name|female|from=Germanic}}. Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of {{term|Carolus|lang=la}}, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from {{etyl|gmh|en}} Karl.

As a noun caroline is

an old silver coin of Italy.

carolean

Not English

Carolean has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

caroline

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II.
  • Synonyms

    * Carolean

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Borrowed in the 17th century from the (etyl) form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the (etyl) equivalent of Charles, which came from (etyl) Karl .
  • * 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
  • - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline'. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are ' Carolines . That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes.
  • * 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Forty-Four:
  • I used to love saying her name. Caroline', with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like ''crinoline'', a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But '''Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a ''girl . The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.

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