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Charleston¹

  • /ˈtʃɑɹlstən/ US

Where it comes from

From Charles + -ton. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.

proper noun

  1. A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
  2. A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
  3. A town in Penobscot County, Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
  4. A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
  5. A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
  6. A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
  7. A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
  8. A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England. Dans told CNN he will formally launch his campaign with a prayer breakfast Wednesday in Charleston.

    Similar: Holy City, Chucktown, ChuckTown

  9. A city in Tennessee.
  10. A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
  11. A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
  12. 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.
  13. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  14. A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation (OS grid ref NO3845).
  15. A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3532).
  16. A town in South Australia.
  17. A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
  18. A surname.

noun Charlestons

  1. A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Dubbed “the Black Venus”, she danced the charleston in nothing but a string of pearls and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, performed with a snake wrapped suggestively round her neck, strolled down the Champs-Élysées with her pet cheetah, and became an international superstar. https://www.theguardi

charleston²

verb charlestons · charlestoning · charlestoned

  1. intransitive To dance the Charleston. The Cambridge professor was charlestoning madly with a well-built woman in a backless evening dress; there were dark patches under his arms where the sweat had soaked through his suit.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: diamond, jitterbug, swing, foxtrot, shag, balboa, quickstep, grapevine, stomp, jive, tap, breakaway, peabody, ragtime, charlestown, whitehouse

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noun dance

Ελληνικάτσάρλεστον tsárleston

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@misc{charleston_2026,
  title = {charleston},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/charleston},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}