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Charlotte vs Zoe - What's the difference?

charlotte | zoe |

As a noun charlotte

is a dessert containing sponge, fruit and cream or custard.

As an adverb zoe is

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charlotte

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names , The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:
    • My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
    In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie .
  • * 1859 (George Eliot), Adam Bede , Chapter VII:
    • "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte''s her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named ' Charlotte . But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."
  • * 2007 (Sophie Hannah), Hurting Distance , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9780340 937907, page 225:
    • 'Can I call you Charlotte ?'
    'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
  • The largest city in the state of North Carolina.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) Designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • * 1764 , The Scots Magazine , Sep 1764:
    • The Charlotte bonnet'', form'd to please, / And ''Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
  • * 1819 , La Belle Assemblée , Apr 1819:
    • the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther , was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
  • * 1968 , Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance :
    • Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.
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    zoe

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a common spelling variant of .
  • * 1833 , Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance , Key&Biddle, page 112:
    • Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe , in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
  • * 1921 , , Stardust , BiblioBazaar, LLC (2007), ISBN 1426437080, page 20:
    • "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe ! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
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