carroll
carroll — noun
1. a family name of Irish origin, most commonly associated with Lewis Carroll (auth
a family name of Irish origin, most commonly associated with Lewis Carroll (author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and Charles Carroll (an American founding father).
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and also taught mathematics at Oxford University.
proper noun as author surname
The rare-book room held a first edition of Lewis Carroll's 1876 poem The Hunting of the Snark.
possessive: surname + 's + work
In literature class, students studied how Lewis Carroll invented words like chortle for his poem Jabberwocky.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a Maryland planter, was the only Catholic to sign the American Declaration of Independence.
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This surname has no retained learner-dictionary sense. Both source entries were rejected during consolidation as single-source encyclopedic biographical references — see processing.notes for details.