Meaning of Caroling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A singing of carols.
2. A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.

Equivalents

Examples

“1958, Brenda Lee, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Later we'll have⟳ some pumpkin pie / And we'll do some caroling.”

“The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […]”

“The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love⟳ for France; […]”

“It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone.”

“THE FALL⟳ OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE⟳ OF THE CAROLINGS”

“The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become⟳ national; and if he looked back, like⟳ the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order⟳, he had no temptation to look⟳ back, as the Carolings were bound to look⟳ back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion.”

“His deposition was followed by one year's reign of Robert I. (see⟳ Table 1), and then of Raoul, 923-936, a distant connection of the Carolings.”

“But one reason⟳ for the change⟳ can be found in the fact that, through the surrender⟳ of regalian rights, the Carolings had become⟳ a family without land⟳ in a society where landed possessions gave power.”

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