Carol

Definitions: Carol

Carol

Noun

1. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.

2. A joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ).

Verb

1. Sing carols; "They went caroling on Christmas Day".

"Carol" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a man".

Date "carol" was first used: 13th century. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CAROl	English	Character-oriented language	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Carol

Synonym: Christmas carol (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Rejoice; carol, chirrup, lilt; frisk, rollick, give a loose to mirth.
Rejoicing	Verb: rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult; (boast); triumph; hold jubilee; (celebrate); make merry; (sport).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Carol

English words defined with "carol": Caroled, Carolled, Carolling, Carrol, Christmas carol ♦ Joyce Carol Oates ♦ Nowel ♦ song thrush. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carol": Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ♦ Digital Subscriber Line, Door Nail ♦ Owl in an Ivy Bush ♦ Persistent Functional Language. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carol" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (Carol), Welsh (carol).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Both Carol and I are subject to the same atmospheric disturbances that may have affected other observers, but there is a qualitative difference, when you're a scientist. (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; writing credit: Curt Siodmak) We don't have that kind of time, Carol. (The 'burbs; writing credit: Dana Olsen) Why, that would be Carol Channing! (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) I don't know, I guess I've always been a sucker for girls named Mary Carol. (Scared Stiff; writing credit: Herbert Baker; Walter DeLeon) No, I'm in love with a girl called Carol. I love your (Fingers; writing credit: James Toback)
Movie/TV Titles	The Invasion of Carol Enders (1973) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973) A Christmas Carol (1971) Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971) Cool It Carol! (1970)
Song Titles	A Christmas Carol (performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Christmas Carol (reference) A Christmas Carol Study Guide (reference) Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol [ABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Carol Burnett Show - Show Stoppers (reference) The Muppet Christmas Carol (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Carols from the Yard: The Eighty-Fifth Annual Carol Service (reference) The Carol Album, Seven Centuries Of Christmas Music (reference) Before Your Time/Consonant Please Carol [IMPORT] (reference) The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol (reference) Hely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	John L. Levitow Jr., son of the late Medal of Honor recipient John L. Levitow, received the American flag on behalf of a grateful nation from Carol DiBattiste, undersecretary of the Air Force. Levitow died Nov. 8 at his home in Connecticut after a lengthy.		09/27/2000 - AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy (AFPN) -- Carol DiBattiste, under Secretary of the Air Force signs the re-enlistment papers of Tech. Sgt. Tate Leger of the 31st Maintenance Squadron, here. DiBattiste stopped here to meet with troops and families, and.
	Ed Moreno and Carol Sweeting, city employees of Iowa City, IA, working with Amy Bouska, Johnson County SWCD. [Slide 97CS3165.Credit: Tim McCabe.		African American organic farmer, Carol Otis with Ray Expose and Daisy Garrett of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives.Credit: USDA.
	Carol Otis and Daisy Garrett of the Mississippi Ass'n of Cooperatives examine Mr. Otis's organically grown peanuts.Credit: USDA.		[Pharmacy: Illustration of pharmaceutical chest] / J.G. Hallman del. Carol. Bergquist sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	A cheerful Christmas carol.Credit: Library of Congress.		"I help to support the establishments I have mentioned; they cost enough, and those who are badly off must go there" -A Christmas Carol / Herblock.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Casket with the body of 14-year-old Carol Robertson, one of four girls killed in the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama.Credit: Library of Congress.		Carol Deis, soprano, half-length portrait, facing front.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		I am a woman approaching middle age. My name might be Carol or Isabella or Arlene or Lily. I might be Hispanic/Latino, African- American, Asian, Native American, Caucasian, or belong to any other racial or ethnic group. (references)
Economic History	Romania	A German prince, Carol of Hohenzollern, was crowned first King of Romania in 1881. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Carol" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.30% of the time. "Carol" is used about 926 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	86.3%	799	8,693
Noun (singular)	11.22%	104	31,955
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.4%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.76%	7	133,076
Noun (common)	0.22%	2	245,945
Unclassified Items	0.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	926	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "carol" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Carol	First name Female	565,000	18
Carol	First name Male	6,000	919
Carol	Last name	1,000	17,414
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Carol" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a man".

The following table summarizes names related to "Carol."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Carolus	Male	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)	Charles
Karoline	Female	Danish	Carolus
Carol	Female, Male	English	Carolus
Carola	Female	English	Carolus
Carolina	Female	English	Carolus
Caroline	Female	English	Carolus
Caryl	Female	English	Carol
Charles	Male	English	N/A
Karoliina	Female	Finnish	Carolus
Carole	Female	French	Carolus
Caroline	Female	French	Carolus
Charles	Male	French	N/A
Karoline	Female	German	Carolus
Karolina	Female	Hungarian	Carolus
Carolina	Female	Italian	Carolus
Karolina	Female	Polish	Carolus
Carolina	Female	Portuguese	Carolus
Karolina	Female	Scandinavian	Carolus
Carolina	Female	Spanish	Carolus
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "carol": Carol City ♦ carol singer ♦ carol singers ♦ Carol Stream ♦ christmas carol ♦ Joyce Carol Oates. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "carol": carol-ini-ana, carol-lyn, carol-singers, carol-singing.
	Ending with "carol": you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-carol.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "carol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Cicëroj (chatter, chirp, chirrup, tweet, twitter), Cicërimë (chatter, chirp, chirrup, peep, tweet, twitter, warble), Cicërij (chatter, chirp, chirrup), Kremtoj (celebrate), Këngë Gazmore, Këndoj (cantillate, crow, descant, sing, troll), Festoj Me Këngë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نشد الترانيم, ‏غنى بمرح, ‏أغنية مرحة (lilt). (various references)

Bulgarian		чуруликам (chirp, pipe, tweet, twitter, warble), Песен На Птица, Пея � адостно, Коледна Песен (Noel), �'ъзпявам, �'есела Песен. (various references)

Chinese		� �歌 . (various references)

Czech		Koleda. (various references)

Farsi		چهچه (Twitter, Warble), سرودشب عیدمیلادمسیح . (various references)

French		Chanter Joyeusement, Chant Joyeux, Célébrer. (various references)

German		Weihnachtslied (christmas carol). (various references)

Greek		ύμνοσ χαράσ, άσμα χαράσ, Τραγουδώ χαρούμενα, ίάλαντα. (various references)

Hebrew		יר ׂליז. (various references)

Hungarian		vidám ének, pacsirtatrillázás, pacsirtadal, pacsirtacsattogás, örömének. (various references)

Indonesian		lagu gembira. (various references)

Italian		Carola, Canto Di Gioia, Inno Natalizio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �歌 (anthem, hymn of praise), キャリア組 (base, calibration, camp, camp in, camp site, camper, camper-van, campfire, camping, campus, campus shoes, campus wear, cancel, canceler, canceller, cancer, candle, candle service, candlestick, candy, cantaloupe, canter, canvas, career bureaucrats, carriage, mobile home, model featured in an advertising campaign, RV), カレー饂飩 (calendar, calorie, can-can, Carolina, carotene, college, college level, college paper, corolla, currency, current, current English, current price, current topics, kan ecology, kangaroo, Kansas, Udon cooked with curry topping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうか (anthem, berry, brothel, commercial course, crystallization, digestion, extinguishing a fire, fire fighting, going up and down, high and low, hymn of praise, juicy fruit, mercantile house, merchant, nitrification, singing, slight mistake, songs, store, sublimation, summering, the government and the people), キャロル , カロル . (various references)

Manx		goll er ny carvallyn (carolling), carval (Christmas carol). (various references)

Pig Latin		arolcay

Portuguese		Cantar Com Alegria (Lily), Canção Alegre, Cântico De Natal, Cântico (canticle, chant), Trinar (chirrup, trill, troll), Trinado (trill, warble), Loa, Gorjeiro De Aves, Gorjear (chirp, peep, twitter). (various references)

Romanian		Colinda (scour, stride, stroll), Ciripit (chatter, chirp, chirrup, garrulity, lay, peep, twitter, warble), Ciripi (chatter, chirp, chirrup, peep, pipe, twitter, warble), carol, Cântec Voios, Cântec De Laudã, Cântec (air, cantus, descant, ditty, epithalamium, glee, lay, lied, lieder, melody, note, song, tune), Cânta (crow, pipe, play in, resound, sing, trill, tune, vocalize, warble), Slãvi Prin Cântece, Imn (anthem, canticle, hymn, psalm). (various references)

Russian		�'оспевать, �'еселая Песнь. (various references)

Scottish		coirioll (a carol), aidheam (joyous carol). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vesela pesma (lilt), pevati vesele pesme, pevati božićne pesme, božićna pesma (christmas carol). (various references)

Spanish		Canción Alegre. (various references)

Swedish		Lovsång (anthem, canticle, hymn, Laud, paean). (various references)

Turkish		Þarkılarla Kutlamak, Þarkılar Söylemek, Þarkı, Ýlahi. (various references)

Ukranian		Оспівувати, Колядка, Ніша, �'есела Пісня, Славити, Співати �'еселу Пісню, � іздвяний �"імн (Noel). (various references)

Welsh		cwndid (channel, conduit, escort, safe conduct, song), caroli, carol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	choraules. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	choraula. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	carole. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carol": caroled, caroler, carolers, caroli, caroling, carolled, caroller, carollers, carolling, carols, carolus, caroluses. (additional references)
	Words containing "carol": barcarole, barcaroles, barcarolle, barcarolles, escarole, escaroles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acol, acral, Arlo, Aroll, barol, cabol, cahol, Cairolo, cajol, calor, canol, Caol, capro, Caproli, caraq, carbol, caril, carld, carlo, caroa, carod, Carolau, carole, caroll, caron, caroo, Carow, carox, Carril, carro, carroll, Carroz, caryo, Carzo, Casolo, caural, cdro, Ceol, ceral, cerl, ceroc, cerol, cerole, Cervl, Chabrol, chagool, charol, ciral, ciro, cirol, clariol, craal, craop, crapola, croal, crol, cyanol, Farrol, kagool, karroo, Savrola. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carol" (pronounced ka"rul)
5	k a" r u l	carrel.
4	-a" r u l	barrel.
3	-r u l	amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, Beryl, boral, Carle, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: claro, coral.
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-o-r"
	-1 letter: arco, calo, carl, coal, cola, loca, oral, orca.
	-2 letters: arc, car, col, cor, lac, lar, oar, oca, ora, orc, roc.
	-3 letters: al, ar, la, lo, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o-r"
	+1 letter: calory, caroli, carols, choral, clamor, claros, coaler, collar, corals, corral, lorica, ocular, oracle, recoal.
	+2 letters: acerola, armlock, cajoler, caldron, caloric, calorie, caloyer, caltrop, caporal, caracol, cariole, carload, caroled, caroler, carolus, carpool, chloral, cholera, chorale, chorals, chordal, choreal, chorial, clamors, clamour, clangor, clarion, claroes, coalers, coalier, collard, collars, copular, coracle, cordial, corneal, cornual, corolla, coronal, corrals, coryzal, courlan, crayola, earlock, escolar, jocular, lavrock, locater, locator, lockram, locular, loricae, oarlock, ocellar, oculars, oracles, oscular, recoals, scholar, scrotal, solacer, trochal, warlock.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 6F 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .- .-. --- .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 006F 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carol cox	2,035	carol supermodel	106
carol	622	connors carol	104
carol stream illinois	467	banawa carol	102
carol grow	438	carol lynley	100
christmas carol	321	carol cox wild rose	99
carol duvall	310	carol channing	98
carol burnett	279	carol smillie	96
carol wright	278	carol costello	94
carol wior	206	carol cable	83
carol alt	187	carol cummings	83
carol wright gift	177	carol doda	80
joyce carol oates	157	carol imhof	77
carol king	150	carol gilligan	71
carol duvall show	147	carol duval show	69
carol vorderman	140	carol wior swimsuit	65
carol daughter	132	carol burnett show	60
carol wayne	130	carol kane	53
carol moseley braun	126	carol cox amateur	52
carol duval	124	carol slimsuit wior	51
carol furniture house	122	carol swain	46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Carol

Definitions: Carol

Carol

Noun

Verb

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Carol

CAROl

Synonym: Carol

Synonyms within Context: Carol

Cheerfulness

Rejoicing

Crosswords: Carol

Modern Usage: Carol

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Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Carol

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Carol

Illustrations:Carol

Computer Images:Carol

Photo Album: Carol

Use in Literature: Carol

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Non-Fiction Usage: Carol

Usage Frequency: Carol

Name Usage Frequency: Carol

Derived & Related Names: Carol

Expression: Carol

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carol

Modern Translations: Carol

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carol

Derivations & Misspellings: Carol

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Carol"

Anagrams: Carol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Carol

43 61 72 6F 6C

-.-. .- .-. --- .-..

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101100

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#108

0043 0061 0072 006F 006C

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INDEX

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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