Charlotte

From French Charlotte in the 17th century, female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz.

The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 - 1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.

• (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːlət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑɹlət/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand, Boston) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːlət/
• (Scotland, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɹlət/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lət

Charlotte

1. A female given name from French.
   • 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, 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 [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VII, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     "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, 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.'

2. A civil parish of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. [From 1765]
3. A city, the county seat of Eaton County, Michigan, United States.
4. The largest city in North Carolina, United States and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.
5. A town, the county seat of Dickson County, Tennessee, United States.
6. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

• Charlotte County
• Charlotte Court House
• Charlottesville

Charlotte (plural Charlottes)

1. (historical) Designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
   • 1764 Sep, The Scots Magazine:

     The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.

   • 1819 Apr, La Belle Assemblée:

     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.

From French Charlotte.

Charlotte

1. a female given name

• Lotte
• Liselotte

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 33 806 females with the given name Charlotte have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.lɔt/

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Charlotte f

1. a female given name; a feminine diminutive form of Charles

Borrowed from French Charlotte and charlotte.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁˈlɔtə/

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Charlotte f (proper noun, genitive Charlottes or Charlotte, plural Charlottes)

1. a female given name from French; variant forms Lotte, Lieselotte, Liselotte
2. The digraph ⟨Ch⟩ in the German spelling alphabet.

Charlotte f (genitive Charlotte, plural Charlotten)

1. charlotte (dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit)

• “Charlotte” in Duden online
• “Charlotte” in Duden online

Charlotte

1. a female given name of French origin. Diminutive: Lotte

• IPA^(key): /ɧaˈɭot/

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Charlotte c (genitive Charlottes)

1. a female given name of French origin

• Charlotta, Lotta