eccles

< /ˈmær ə nər ˈstɒd ərd/, 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

1. ecclesiastic.
2. ecclesiastical.

1. Ecclesiastes.

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

noun

1. Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

abbreviation for

1. ecclesiastic(al)

1. Australian physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on the action of nerve impulses.