Charlotte

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑɹlət/
• (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːlət/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand, Boston) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːlət/
• (Scotland, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɹlət/

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Charlotte

1. A female given name.
   • 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, 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 city in Michigan, USA, and the county seat of Eaton County.
3. The largest city in the state of North Carolina, and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.
4. A town in Tennessee, USA, and the county seat of Dickson County.

• 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, 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.

From English Charlotte, from French.

Charlotte

1. a female given name

From French Charlotte.

Charlotte

1. A female given name.

• Lotte
• Liselotte

• 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/

Charlotte f

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

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Charlotte

1. A female given name of French origin. Variants: Lotte, Lieselotte, Liselotte.

Charlotte

1. The digraph Ch in the German spelling alphabet.

Charlotte

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

• IPA^(key): /ɧaˈɭot/

Charlotte c (genitive Charlottes)

1. A female given name of French origin.

• Charlotta, Lotta