Ernest

American  

[ur-nist] / ˈɜr nɪst /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, “A Moveable Feast,” opens with him as a young man in 1920s Paris worrying about the cost of heating his apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The newly discovered Ξcc⁺ is part of the same family as the proton, which was first identified in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford and colleagues between 1917-1919.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

Jane Magnusson recalled rescuing a first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” that her mother might otherwise have discarded or given to a stranger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

It is a culture that Riley described when he left in 1990, quoting the late author Ernest Becker.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

Several lawmen quickly located Ernest Burkhart at his favorite dive, a pool hall in Fairfax, and transported him to the jail in Guthrie, eighty miles southwest of Pawhuska.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann