charles

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charles - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Charles
      n 1: King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated
           by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574) [syn:
           Charles, Charles IX]
      2: King of France who began his reign with most of northern
         France under English control; after the intervention of
         Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and
         end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461) [syn: Charles,
         Charles VII]
      3: as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he
         was king of France (823-877) [syn: Charles, Charles II,
         Charles I, Charles the Bald]
      4: King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the
         Restoration (1630-1685) [syn: Charles, Charles II]
      5: son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and
         Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell
         (1600-1649) [syn: Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuart]
      6: the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne
         (born in 1948) [syn: Charles, Prince Charles]
      7: French physicist and author of Charles's law which
         anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) [syn: Charles,
         Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles]
      8: king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the
         Lombards and Saxons (742-814) [syn: Charlemagne, Carolus,
         Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great]
      9: a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston
         Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston [syn:
         Charles, Charles River]