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# charter

noun

«charter» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

206 uses in 105 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 163 of 206. By the class of the article: city 47, university 24, agglomeration 14, country 12. Most often with: «school», «city», «grant», «university», «royal».

### Examples

- The same day, a ship chartered by the World Food Programme carrying fuel docked in Aden's port. — [Aden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), sentence 311 («wiki:Aden:311»)
- Alexandria was incorporated as a town in 1818 and received a city charter in 1832. — [Alexandria, Louisiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), sentence 12 («wiki:Alexandria,\_Louisiana:12»)
- Andorra was formed as a polity by a charter in 1278, being a lordship within the Principality of Catalonia until 1715. — [Andorra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra), sentence 3 («wiki:Andorra:3»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alexandria, Louisiana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Andorra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.