charleston
IPA: tʃˈɑrɫstʌn
Root Word: Charleston
noun
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
- A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
- A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
- A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
- A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
- A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
- A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
- A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.
- A city in Tennessee.
- A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
- A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
- The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation.
- An area of Dundee, Scotland.
- A town in South Australia.
- A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.
verb
- (intransitive) To dance the Charleston.
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Examples of "charleston" in Sentences
- Charleston should be a disambiguation page.
- Charleston was the hub of the deerskin trade.
- Charleston was selected as the ideal location.
- At this time, it was a part of the College of Charleston.
- In Charleston, the colonists left the tea on the docks to rot.
- The finish line moved to the campus of the College of Charleston.
- The Charleston became a full model in 1981 and the Dolly in 1985.
- The Houston Dynamo lost to the Charleston Battery in the Third Round.
- The new Charleston franchise continued to use the Charleston Charlies name.
- Perry spent the next two years in convalescence in Charleston, South Carolina.