Ithaca

[ith-uh-kuh]

noun

1. Greek Itháki. one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).

2. a city in S New York at the S end of Cayuga Lake.

Ithaca

/ ˈɪθəkə /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Itháki. 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)

Other Word Forms

• Ithacan adjective

Example Sentences

But Nashville being similar to where I’m from, which is Ithaca, where I worked as a carpenter, it reaffirmed that you can be a dirty carpenter, and that’s also kinda cool.

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A year later, Borchetta sold his label to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings.

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Before he became obsessed with the workings of authoritarianism, Levitzky grew up in Ithaca, N.Y., the son of a professor of psychology at Cornell University.

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Nathan’s new company is partially owned by Ithaca Media Ventures, according to corporate registration records filed in California.

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But Pasolini has chosen to set the movie on the island of Ithaca during the time of Odysseus, even if there is a certain modernity to the style and storytelling.

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