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Carroll

name · noun · verb · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈkæɹəl/
  • homophone: carol
  • homophone: Carol
  • homophone: Carole
  • rhymes with -æɹəl
  • CMU ARPABET: K AE1 R AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: K EH1 R AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from Irish derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 2

Lewis Carroll - pseudonym of British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 3

A unisex given name

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 4

A unisex given name

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 5

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Iowa.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 6

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A village in Wayne County, Nebraska.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 7

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 8

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Chautauqua County, New York.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 9

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A village in Fairfield County, Ohio.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 10

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 11

A placename

A number of places in the United States:

A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa (2), Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (3).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 12

A placename

A village in Gunnedah Shire, northern New South Wales, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 13

A placename

Ellipsis of Carroll County

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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name

Meaning 14

A placename

Ellipsis of Carroll Parish

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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name

Meaning 15

A placename

Ellipsis of Carroll Township

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 16

An early-ripening apple cultivar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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17

noun

Meaning 17

Alternative spelling of carol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, archaic

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18

verb

Meaning 18

Alternative form of carol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, archaic

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noun

Meaning 19

English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: writer, author

History

Etymology

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Real reading context

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