Carl Definition

kärl
noun
A peasant, bondman, or villein.
Webster's New World
An ill-bred fellow; churl.
Webster's New World
A sturdy fellow.
Webster's New World
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
verb

(obsolete) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.

Wiktionary
pronoun
A male given name.
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Other Word Forms of Carl

Noun

Singular:
carl
Plural:
carls

Origin of Carl

  • From German and other north European Carl and Karl, cognate with English Charles.

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  • Old English carl, from Old Norse karl (“man, husband”)

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  • Origin uncertain.

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Carl Sentence Examples

  • Matt Derbyshire gave Blackburn a second minute lead with a shot that took a wicked deflexion on its way past Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme.

  • At Carl's Jr., the Charbroiled BBQ Chicken Sandwich clocks in at 290 calories, with only 30 of those calories coming from fat.

  • Matriculating at the university of Gottingen in 1811, he began by devoting himself to astronomy under Carl Friedrich Gauss; but he enlisted in the Hanseatic Legion for the campaign of 1813 - 14, and became lieutenant of artillery in the Prussian service in 1815.

  • Humboldt's contemporary, Carl Ritter (1779-1859), extended and disseminated the same views, and in his interpretation of " Comparative Geography " he laid stress on the importance of Iditter.

  • This argument was tacitly accepted or explicitly avowed by almost every writer on the theory of geography, and Carl Ritter distinctly recognized and adopted it as the unifying principle of his system.

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Words Starting With

CCACAR

Words Ending With

LRLARL

Unscrambles

carl

Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CA & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With RL

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With C4 Letter Words Ending With L