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eureka
1[ yoo-ree-kuh, yuh- ]
interjection
- (initial capital letter) I have found (it): the reputed exclamation of Archimedes when, after long study, he discovered a method of detecting the amount of alloy mixed with the gold in the crown of the king of Syracuse.
- (used as an exclamation of triumph at a discovery.)
Eureka
2[ yoo-ree-kuh, yuh- ]
noun
- a city in NW California.
eureka
/ jʊˈriːkə /
interjection
- an exclamation of triumph on discovering or solving something
Eureka!
- A Greek word meaning “I have found it!” An exclamation that accompanies a discovery: “When she finally located the rare book, the scholar cried, ‘Eureka!’” ( See Archimedes .)
Word History and Origins
Origin of eureka1
Word History and Origins
Origin of eureka1
Example Sentences
That decades-long durability makes it a hard product to beat, but if you’re looking to cut the size of your stove, Eureka!
We experience night, he speculated in his prose poem Eureka in 1848, because the universe is not eternal.
In the Eureka area in northern California, a company managed by Rechnitz in 2011 leased five nursing homes, agreeing to pay the property owner a total of $3 million in rent per year, state records show.
Johnson said Rechnitz took over the Eureka properties from an owner facing a large civil judgment and the lease structure required millions of dollars to be set aside for a security deposit and capital expenses.
In one example, at the carmaker Porsche, an engineer had a Eureka moment while getting coffee from an automated machine.
That part of New York, lower Manhattan, dominated for 300 years, then all of a sudden the whole thing rises up—Eureka-like.
Mayor Frank Jager of Eureka made that clear when he spoke at a press conference outside the church.
A dispatcher relayed instructions from a Eureka detective to the arresting deputies.
The chef behind hit Beverly Hills pop-up restaurant Eureka is Flynn McGarry.
Not just one of his films but all of them from Performance through to Eureka.
"We ought to have called him and Dorothy when we were first attacked," added Eureka.
"Eureka sees better in the dark than we can," whispered Dorothy.
They mounted into the buggy, Dorothy holding Eureka safe in her lap.
Dorothy held Eureka in her arms and bade her friends a fond good-bye.
You owe the Eureka, as your share of the assessment, two dollars and forty cents.
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