English
eureka
see also: Eureka
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /juˈɹikə/
Interjection
  1. 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
Translations Noun

eureka (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of constantan#English|constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)
Eureka
Proper noun
  1. A rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland.
  2. A small suburb in Ballarat, Victoria.
  3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
  4. A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island.
  5. A settlement in Waikato, New Zealand.
  6. A city/county seat in Humboldt County, in northern.
  7. A ghost town in Nevada County, California.
  8. A mining ghost town in San Juan County, Colorado.
  9. A city/county seat in Woodford County, Illinois.
  10. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana, also known as Geiberson.
  11. An unincorporated community in Luce Township, Spencer County.
  12. A city/county seat in Greenwood County, Kansas.
  13. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
  14. An unincorporated community in Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County.
  15. A town in Lincoln County, Montana.
  16. An unincorporated town/and/census-designated place/county seat in Eureka County, Nevada.
  17. A town in Wayne County, North Carolina.
  18. An unincorporated community in Warrington Township, Bucks County.
  19. An unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina.
  20. A city in McPherson County, South Dakota.
  21. A ghost town in Crockett County, Texas.
  22. A ghost town in Franklin County, Texas.
  23. A tiny city in Navarro County, Texas.
  24. A small city in Juab County, Utah.
  25. An unincorporated community in Walla Walla County, Washington.
  26. An unincorporated community in Pleasants County, West Virginia.
  27. A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
  28. An unincorporated CDP in the town of Rushford.
  29. A given name, like for the protagonists of Eureka's Castle or Eureka Seven.


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