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  • English Word Chart Definition A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
  • English Word Chart Definition A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
  • English Word Chart Definition A written deed; a charter.
  • English Word Chart Definition To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
  • English Word Charta Definition Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
  • English Word Charta Definition A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
  • English Word Chartaceous Definition Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
  • English Word Charte Definition The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
  • English Word Charted Definition of Chart
  • English Word Charter Definition A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
  • English Word Charter Definition An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
  • English Word Charter Definition An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
  • English Word Charter Definition A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
  • English Word Charter Definition The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
  • English Word Charter Definition To establish by charter.
  • English Word Charter Definition To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
  • English Word Chartered Definition of Charter
  • English Word Chartered Definition Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
  • English Word Chartered Definition Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
  • English Word Charterer Definition One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
  • English Word Charterhouse Definition A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
  • English Word Chartering Definition of Charter
  • English Word Charterist Definition Same as Chartist.
  • English Word Chartism Definition The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.
  • English Word Chartist Definition A supporter or partisan of chartism.
  • English Word Chartless Definition Without a chart; having no guide.
  • English Word Chartless Definition Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
  • English Word Chartographer Definition Alt. of Chartography
  • English Word Chartographic Definition Alt. of Chartography
  • English Word Chartography Definition Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.