charter – English noun declension

English noun forms of charter

Noun: charter
Singularcharter
Pluralcharters

Sample Sentences

  • My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ix]:]
  • In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it. [2001 March 23, Clare Dyer, “Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'”, in The Guardian, London:]
  • [2005 November 30, Stephen Foley, “The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud”, in The Independent, London:]

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula. See: Middle English Nouns 'charter', Latin Nouns 'chartula'.

Verbs referencing "charter"

French Nouns charter, Swedish Nouns charter, Russian Nouns чартер.