Ernest

[ur-nist]

noun

1. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”

Example Sentences

And we end the interview on a philosophical note - as he recites "They are not long, the days of wine and roses" from an Ernest Dowson poem and muses on the fleeting nature of life.

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The stripping of a princely title is so rare in British royal-legal history that the last person it happened to was Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh.

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Andrew is the first prince to be stripped of his title since 1919, when Prince Ernest Augustus lost his British titles for siding with Germany in World War I.

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Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at Uswitch, said while the regulator's latest telecoms complaints figures were "at some of the lowest levels ever", service issues were still the main driver of complaints about mobile and broadband providers.

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The Weddell Sea Expedition of 2019 had two primary objectives: to carry out a wide-ranging scientific survey in the waters around the Larsen C Ice Shelf and to search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, lost in 1915.

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