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erie
/ˈɪɹi/
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What does erie mean?
noun
- A tribe of Native Americans.
proper noun
- A lake in Canada and the United States, one of the Great Lakes of North America
- A ghost town in present-day Hale County, Alabama.
More meanings (13)
proper noun
- A town in Weld County and Boulder County, Colorado.
- A township and village in Whiteside County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Miami County, Indiana.
- Two townships, in Neosho County and Sedgwick County, Kansas.
- A small city, the county seat of Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
- A township in Monroe County, Michigan.
- A township in Becker County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Cass County, North Dakota.
- A township in Ottawa County, Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania.
- Any of a number of other places in North America; see Erie (disambiguation) at Wikipedia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪɹi/
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A gentleman from Erie, Pa., writes to me that he has used this remedy for years, with complete success.
He saved the credit of the Erie by telephone--lent it five million dollars as he lay at home on a sickbed.
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Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.
His fate was like that which may be supposed to have overtaken the first adventurous boatman who rowed from Erie to Ontario.
The greatest depth of water yet sounded in Lake Erie is but two hundred and seventy feet, the mean depth one hundred and twenty.