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• Eccles
  Eccles

  noun

  Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
• eccles.
  eccles.

  abbreviation

  ecclesiastic.
• Eccles.
  Eccles.

  abbreviation

  Ecclesiastes.

Eccles

¹ American  

[ek-uhlz] / ˈɛk əlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.

2. Marriner Stoddard 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

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eccles. ² American  

Or eccl.

abbreviation

1. ecclesiastic.

2. ecclesiastical.

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Eccles. ³ American  

Or Eccl.

abbreviation

Bible.

1. Ecclesiastes.

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Eccles ¹ British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

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Eccles ² British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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Eccles. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Ecclesiastes

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Example Sentences

No Fed governor has remained on the board after his term as chairman expired since Marriner Eccles in 1948.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

For example, the Washington headquarters of the Fed are named after Marriner Eccles, who was Fed chairman for 14 years, 1934-1948.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Fellow fan Gracie Eccles, 22, tells Newsbeat that hearing that the band are not hanging up their guitars is "music to my ears" following speculation online the new song could be their last hurrah.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Braced as we are for nostalgia at every world premiere in the Eccles or every late night spent at the Library with a cup of chili, Sundance should supply plenty of newness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

So saying, Eccles moved off in one direction, while Hotham and Cleremont strolled away in another; and I was left to my own reflections, which were not few.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James