Elmer

[ el-mer ]

noun

1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”

Example Sentences

Elmer Smith was Cleveland’s RBI leader with five.

From Los Angeles Times

Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union soldier to die in the Civil War, than for his sons.

From Salon

Not all of Google’s AI-generated answers have been correct, including when it told a user to add Elmer’s glue to pizza sauce to keep cheese from sliding off the crust.

From Los Angeles Times

Running alongside Pierluisi for the position of congressional representative is Puerto Rico Sen. William Villafañe, while senior U.S. naval military officer Elmer Román, a former secretary of state for Puerto Rico, is seeking the position under González.

From Seattle Times

Management by committee is considered a business school formula for disaster, but the Nordstrom family, starting with Bruce’s father, Everett, and Everett’s brothers Elmer and Lloyd, decided that they could be more effective as co-leaders of the company, which was founded in 1901 in Seattle.

From New York Times