Carolina

plural Carolinas

1. countableA female given name from Latin, Latinate form of Caroline; rare in English.
2. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableEither North Carolina or South Carolina.

      I drove all the way from Florida to Carolina.

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      These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.

      2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN

   2. countableuncountableA town in Alabama.
   3. countableuncountableA village and census-designated place in the towns of Charlestown and Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island.
   4. countableuncountableA municipality of Maranhão, Brazil.
   5. countableuncountableA municipality of Maranhão, Brazil.
   6. countableuncountableA municipality of Puerto Rico, United States.
   7. countableuncountableA town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
   8. countableuncountableA municipality of Para district, Suriname.
   9. countableuncountableA town in San Miguel department, El Salvador.
3. uncountableUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.