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Ithaca

noun

A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.

A Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king. Synonym: Ithaki.

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"Ithaca" Quotes from Famous Books

... He spoke sadly, as Ulysses might have done when his boat put in at Ithaca. 'Every darned thing different since I was here last. New waiter, head-waiter I never saw before in ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... arrived at Ithaca they found there had been a freight smash-up on the railroad, and that they would have to wait for five or six hours for a train to take them home. This would bring them to Oak Run, their railroad station, at three ...

— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield

... first of many visits, to collect evidence in support of his theory identifying the Scheria and Ithaca of the Odyssey with Trapani and the ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... to Ulysses, king of Ithaca. He was only a puppy when his master went away to the Trojan war. The years went by and Ulysses did not return. Every one thought that he was dead. At last Argus grew so old and feeble that he could not ...

— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy

... first Congregational Church of Christ in Ithaca, N. Y.,—the city named by Simeon DeWitt after his Ulysses-like wanderings were over,—sent out its "letter missive" to the churches of the Central Association of New York State, and to Shawmut Church in Boston, the latter responded. It was voted to send, as their messengers, the pastor, ...

— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis

Words linked to "Ithaca" : NY, Ellas, town, Hellenic Republic, Empire State, New York State, island, New York, Greece