ernest
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɜː(ɹ)nɪst/(UK)
Definition of ernest
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century.
“GWENDOLEN. […] and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.”
“"What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called Ernest. My granddad was Ernest."”
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name
-
A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century.
“GWENDOLEN. […] and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.”
“"What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called Ernest. My granddad was Ernest."”
- A surname.
noun
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of earnest.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed in the 18th century from Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), only remotely related to modern German ernst or English earnest.
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