Carlisle meaning

kär-līl, kärlīl
A borough of northwest England near the Scottish border. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in Carlisle's 11th-century castle from May to July 1568.
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City in NW England; county seat of Cumbria.
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A city in north-western England, the county town of Cumbria and formerly of Cumberland.
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A habitational surname​.
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Origin of carlisle

  • From Old English Carleol, from Celtic *cair (“fortified town”) + *Lugovalos.

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Carlisle Sentence Examples

  • He died at Carlisle on the 24th of May 1153.

  • He is said to have been a slave and to have been appointed king at the command of St Cuthbert, who appeared to Eadred the abbot of Carlisle in a dream.

  • There are in England fourteen congregations in connexion with the Church of Scotland, six of them in London and the remainder in Berwick, Northumberland, Carlisle and Lancashire.

  • In 1547 he became provost of Eton and dean of Carlisle.

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