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Webster 1913 Edition
Eureka
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Eu-re′ka
.[Gr. [GREEK] I have found, perfect indicative of [GREEK] to find.]
The exclamation attributed to
Archimedes
, who is said to have cried out “Eureka! eureka!” (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero’s
crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery. Definition 2024
Eureka
Eureka
English
Proper noun
Eureka
- A city in northern California.
- A city in Illinois.
- A city in Kansas.
- A city in Missouri.
- A town in Montana.
- A census-designated place and a county in Nevada.
- A town in North Carolina.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
- A research base in Nunavut
- A city in South Dakota.
- A city in Texas.
- A city in Utah.
- A town in Wisconsin.
- a given name, like for the protagonists of Wikipedia:Eureka's Castle or Wikipedia:Eureka Seven
eureka
eureka
English
Interjection
eureka
- An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
- 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
- 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970
Derived terms
Translations
exclamation indicating sudden discovery
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See also
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /øːˈreːkaː/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find”).
Interjection
eureka