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Eric

1

[ er-ik ]

noun

  1. a male given name: ultimately from Germanic words meaning “one” and “ruler.”


ERIC

2

[ er-ik ]

abbreviation for

  1. Education Resources Information Center: a database of articles and reports on education-related topics.

eric

/ ˈɛrɪk /

noun

  1. (in old Irish law) a fine paid by a murderer to the family of his victim Compare wergild
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Eric1

C16: from Irish eiric
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Example Sentences

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.

The protests sparked by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have become front page news.

If they really wanted to get revenge they should have gone to Staten Island and found the cops that killed Eric Garner.

“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.

Eric learnt the whole landscape by heart, and thought himself a most happy boy to come to such a place.

Eric secretly thought that he a very nice-looking specimen of Roslyn School.

“You brutal cowardly bully,” shouted Eric; and in another moment he would have sprung upon him.

So Eric left the field, and wandered home, like Calchas in the Iliad, “sorrowful by the side of the sounding sea.”

Eric stood still, trembling with rage, while his eyes lightened scorn and indignation.

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