Charlottesville

English

Etymology

From Charlotte +‎ -s- +‎ -ville. Named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744–1818), the consort of George III.

Proper noun

Charlottesville

1. An independent city, the county seat of Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. Named after Queen Charlotte.

   Synonym: (informal) C'ville

   • 2021 January 8, Nicole Hemmer, “The striking parallels between the assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Rather, we have to refocus our political debates and conversation around a different kind of discussion of ethics, one that can look at a Civil War battlefield or the streets of Charlottesville or the floor of the US Senate and see that there are fights that are righteous and there are fights that are not – and begin to build from there.

   • 2022, Sara Kamali, Homegrown Hate, page 24:

     Nick Fuentes, an attendee of the Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville and host of the podcast America First, is also one of the leaders of the Groypers, or the Groyper Army, a White nationalist group named after the meme […]

2. An unincorporated community in Hancock County and Rush County, Indiana, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana.

Derived terms

• Charlottesvillian