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eureka The mountain town of Eureka, California, was named for the cries of delight by prospectors when they discovered gold in them thar hills. jʊˈrikə

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An exclamation used to express triumph and delight on a discovery. Eureka means “I have found” in Greek. The story goes that the Greek inventor Archimedes, given the task of determining the purity of gold in a crown, shouted “Eureka!” one day after stepping into a bath and making water slop over the side, when he suddenly realized that the weight of water displaced indicated the bulk of his body, but that a larger body made of lighter matter might weigh the same but would displace more water. Thus, a crown in which lighter metal had secretly been mixed with the gold would reveal itself in the same way. The story may not be true, but we still shout “Eureka!” when we make a sudden, welcome discovery

word	eureka
definition	An exclamation used to express triumph and delight on a discovery.
eg_sentence	The mountain town of Eureka, California, was named for the cries of delight by prospectors when they discovered gold in them thar hills.
explanation	Eureka means “I have found” in Greek. The story goes that the Greek inventor Archimedes, given the task of determining the purity of gold in a crown, shouted “Eureka!” one day after stepping into a bath and making water slop over the side, when he suddenly realized that the weight of water displaced indicated the bulk of his body, but that a larger body made of lighter matter might weigh the same but would displace more water. Thus, a crown in which lighter metal had secretly been mixed with the gold would reveal itself in the same way. The story may not be true, but we still shout “Eureka!” when we make a sudden, welcome discovery
IPA	jʊˈrikə

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