CAROLUS

Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great

(noun) king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

Carolus (plural Caroluses)

(historical) An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.

Anagrams

• Lacours, oculars, oscular

Source: Wiktionary


Car"o*lus, n.; pl. E. Caroluses, L. Caroli. Etym: [L., Charles.]

Definition: An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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