Ithaca

[ ith-uh-kuh ]

noun

1. one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
2. a city in S New York at the S end of Cayuga Lake.

Ithaca

/ ˈɪθəkə /

noun

1. a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the smallest of the Ionian Islands: regarded as the home of Homer's Odysseus. Area: 93 sq km (36 sq miles) Modern Greek nameIthákiiˈθaki

Other Words From

• Itha·can adjective noun

Example Sentences

Take Ithaca HOURS, a time-based currency system embraced by the upstate New York college town.

From Ozy

As approaches like Ithaca’s are implemented, they should be carefully measured, revisited when they fail, and scaled when they succeed.

From Time

This debut novelist lives in Ithaca and used to write about tech for Wired magazine, which helps explain the tech journalist protagonist Jing Jing in Chang’s Days of Distraction.

From Ozy

Student surveys had revealed that even if classes were all online, many planned to live in Ithaca for the school year.

From Washington Post

She’s a lawyer and sociologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

From Science News For Students

Superintendent of Schools Donald Trombley is quoted in The Ithaca Journal: “It is unbelievable hysteria.”

From The Daily Beast

You spent the first years of your life in Belgrade, but now live in Ithaca, New York.

From The Daily Beast

Ithaca, for example, always made the top 25, but adding the last two variables to the index raised its rank from 14th to first.

From The Daily Beast

Ithaca is first followed by Madison, Wisconsin; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Durham, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and Boulder Colorado.

From The Daily Beast

But one little-known fact about the Ithaca university is that it is, in part, a land-grant state institution.

From The Daily Beast

The run to Ithaca took several hours, and they lunched at noon in the dining car.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sobber is going to take a run by steamboat to Ithaca," answered Songbird.

From Project Gutenberg

"You seem to be extra bitter against the Rovers since you got back from Ithaca," said Pell, curiously.

From Project Gutenberg

On their way they stopped at several stores in Ithaca, where they purchased a number of Christmas presents.

From Project Gutenberg

Otherwise we shouldn't have seen Merrick in Ithaca and up at the Stanhope place.

From Project Gutenberg