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  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

Not only did Eccles not have a Ph.D. in economics, he never went to a university, but learned on the job as a successful banker and investor.

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

“This movie is about the end of an era — and this is the end of an era,” she said, gesturing toward the Eccles audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

I began to suspect some disaster had befallen our remittances, that they were lost or suppressed, and that Eccles was overwhelmed by the misfortune.

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