Bruno is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago, he's Ernest.
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Ernest
Synonyms for "ernest"
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Translations
30 translations across 28 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- আর্নেস্ট name (given name)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Eрне́ст name (given name)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- Ерне́ст name (given name)
Catalan
1 entries- Ernest name (given name)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 歐內斯特 /欧内斯特 name (given name)
Czech
1 entries- Arnošt name (given name)
Danish
1 entries- Ernst name (given name)
Dutch
1 entries- Ernst name (given name)
Esperanto
1 entries- Ernesto name (given name)
Finnish
2 entries- Ernesti name (given name)
- Erno name (given name)
French
1 entries- Ernest name (given name)
Galician
1 entries- Ernesto name (given name)
German
1 entries- Ernst name (given name)
Greek
1 entries- Ερνέστος name (given name)
Hungarian
1 entries- Ernő name (given name)
Irish
1 entries- Earnán name (given name)
Italian
1 entries- Ernesto name (given name)
Latin
1 entries- Ernestus name (given name)
Latvian
1 entries- Ernests name (given name)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Ernestas name (given name)
Marathi
1 entries- अर्नेस्ट name (given name)
Norwegian
1 entries- Ernst name (given name)
Polish
1 entries- Ernest name (given name)
Portuguese
1 entries- Ernesto name (given name)
Romanian
1 entries- Ernest name (given name)
Russian
2 entries- Эрне́ст name (given name)
- Эрнст name (given name)
Spanish
1 entries- Ernesto name (given name)
Swedish
1 entries- Ernst name (given name)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
GWENDOLEN. […] and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
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"What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called Ernest. My granddad was Ernest."
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