Charleton

[ chahrl-tn ]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Asked whether Democrats have a fallback plan if Mr. Biden exits the race, Sam Skardon, Democratic Party chair in Charleton County, South Carolina, said: “We’d likely handle it the same way the Republicans would for their 76-year-old frontrunner.”

From Washington Times

As a regional cardiac care center, Charleton Memorial handles referrals from an area between Rhode Island and Cape Cod.

From Washington Post

We see this looser attitude already at work in Walter Charleton, where there are lots of other laws apart from the three ‘General Laws of Nature, whereby she produceth All Effects’, such as ‘the Laws of Rarity and Density’ and ‘the setled and unalterable Laws of Magnetical Attraction’.

From Literature

Charleton uses ‘evidence’ in this sense, too.

From Literature

The exception is Walter Charleton’s Ternary of Paradoxes; there are two distinct editions dated 1650, one of which actually appeared in 1649, so I give 1649 as the publication date in order to show which edition I have used.

From Literature