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chartre

chartre is the obsolete spelling of charter.

Meaning of charter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

  1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
  2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
  3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
  4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
  5. A deed (legal contract).
  6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
    • 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]...

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Forms of chartre

pluralchartres

Questions about chartre

What is chartre the obsolete spelling of?
Chartre is the obsolete spelling of charter.

Words near chartre in the dictionary

  1. chartoularioi
  2. chartoularios
  3. chartplotter
  4. chartplotters
  5. Chartrand
  6. chartre
  7. chartres
  8. Chartres blue
  9. Chartres blues
  10. chartreuse
  11. chartreuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chartre (page history and authors); charter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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