Paul vs Caroline - What's the difference?
paul | caroline |
In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
* : Acts 9:4 :
of biblical origin.
* 1848 (Charles Dickens), :
A city in Idaho.
. 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:
* 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Forty-Four:
As nouns the difference between paul and caroline
is that paul is an old italian silver coin; a paolo or paul can be while caroline is (historical) an old silver coin of italy.paul
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Then Saul, ( who is also called Paul ,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
- 'He will be christened Paul , my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'
- She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
- 'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
Derived terms
* rob Peter to pay Paul * Saint Paul * PaulineAnagrams
* ----caroline
English
Synonyms
* CaroleanProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - 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.
- 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.