Synonyms:
Erie
Meaning: a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania
Synonyms:
Lake_Erie, Erie
Meaning: the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal
Synonyms:
Erie
Meaning: a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York
Usage examples
In a similar way Lake Erie was formed.
All of the lake bottoms of this great chain, with the exception of Lake Erie, are now below sea-level.
After trying various towns, he found a situation in Erie, taking the place of a workman who was ill, and for seven months he did not lose a day.
The same action that formed Lake Erie filled up the old river bed running through the province of Ontario, so that when the ice receded Lake Erie became the new channel for the old river.
Major William McRee, of North Carolina, became chief engineer to General Brown and constructed the fortifications at Fort Erie, which cost the British General Gordon Drummond the loss of half his army, besides the mortification of defeat.