Carolean

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adjective

Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.

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Caroline
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Meanings

Carolean1

adjectiveCarolean (comparative more Carolean, superlative most Carolean)

comparative more Carolean · superlative most Carolean

  1. Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.
  2. Of or relating to King Charles I, Charles II, or Charles III.

    Using the still unfamiliar term, she declared that the nation was now entering a new “Carolean age”.

    2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, quoting Liz Truss, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023
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    I have every confidence that in this new Carolean era, the United Kingdom will continue to prosper amid lasting peace and stability under Your Majesty’s leadership.

    2023 May 6, Halimah Yacob, “Letter from President Halimah Yacob to His Majesty King Charles III”, in Congratulatory Messages from Singapore Leaders on the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2026

    The Carolean court and all that King Charles III holds dear will change significantly in the reign of King William V and Queen Catherine. William will have to be a very different monarch.

    2025, Paul Burrell, “The Future”, in The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana, London: Sphere, →ISBN
nounCarolean (plural Caroleans)

plural Caroleans

  1. A contemporary of King Charles I, II, or III.

    William Cartwright, an elegant minor poet, and one who was to the Caroleans what Tennyson was to the Victorians, is as good an index to the transitional period between poetry and verse as any in the century.

    1918, The Nation, volume 23, page 425

Carolean2

nounCarolean (plural Caroleans)

plural Caroleans

  1. historicalA soldier (or war veteran) of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.

    More than three thousand Caroleans froze to death up here in the winter of 1718–19. We still find their remains sometimes.

    2016, Marlaine Delargy, transl., The Man Who Wasn't There, Random House, translation of original by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, →ISBN
adjectiveCarolean (comparative more Carolean, superlative most Carolean)

comparative more Carolean · superlative most Carolean

  1. historicalOf or relating to the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.

    the Carolean army

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveof or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England

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Caroline
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caroline

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Origin

Carolean · adjective, noun

  1. LatinCarolus“Charles”
  2. EnglishCarolean

From Latin Carolus (“Charles”) + -ean. May be decomposed as Carol (“Charles”) + -ean.

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Carolean · noun, adjective

  1. LatinCarolus“Charles”
  2. Swedishkarolin
  3. EnglishCarolean

Calque of Swedish karolin, ultimately derived from Latin Carolus (“Charles”).

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Translations

Danish karoliner
  • karolinersoldier of Sweden
Spanish carolino
  • carolinosoldier of Sweden
Swedish karolin, karolinsk
  • karolinsoldier of Sweden
  • karolinskrelating to the kings of Sweden
Cite this entry
APA

Carolean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolean

MLA

“Carolean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolean. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Carolean,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolean.

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