Definitions for Eureka

Eureka eu·re·ka

Spelling: [yoo-ree-kuh, yuh-]
IPA: /yʊˈri kə, yə-/

Eureka is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Eureka (aeekru).

Definitions for Eureka

noun

  1. a city in NW California.

interjection

  1. (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.
  2. (used as an exclamation of triumph at a discovery.)

Origin of Eureka

1560-70; Greek heúrēka, 1st person singular perfect indicative of heurískein to find, discover

Examples for Eureka

They mounted into the buggy, Dorothy holding eureka safe in her lap.

A dispatcher relayed instructions from a eureka detective to the arresting deputies.

Soon after this, Levenson had a eureka moment: He decided to host parties, where everything could take place at one venue.

"eureka," said the doctor calmly, and emitted a curly cloud.

The two were sitting in front of a heater one November afternoon when Apple had a eureka moment.

"eureka sees better in the dark than we can," whispered Dorothy.

This paper is from the collection of 105 in the Court House at eureka.

Not just one of his films but all of them from Performance through to eureka.

Dorothy held eureka in her arms and bade her friends a fond good-bye.

Mayor Frank Jager of eureka made that clear when he spoke at a press conference outside the church.

Word Value for Eureka
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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