Definitions | Ernest |
| proper noun
- (given name, male) popular in the 19th century.
Etymology: Borrowed in the 18th century from Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from (OHG.) ernust "vigor, strife", only remotely related to modern German ernst or English earnest.
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