Syracuse

American  

[sir-uh-kyoos, -kyooz] / ˈsɪr əˌkjus, -ˌkjuz /

noun

1. a city in central New York.

2. Italian Siracusa. a seaport in SE Sicily: ancient city founded by the Carthaginians 734 b.c.; battles 413 b.c., 212 b.c.

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Syracuse British  

noun

1. Italian name: Siracusa. a port in SW Italy, in SE Sicily on the Ionian Sea: founded in 734 _bc by Greeks from Corinth and taken by the Romans in 212 _bc , after a siege of three years. Pop: 123 657 (2001)

2. a city in central New York State, on Lake Onondaga: site of the capital of the Iroquois Indian federation. Pop: 144 001 (2003 est)

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Other Word Forms

• Syracusan
  adjective

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Syracuse

Pelland, a 74-year-old real-estate agent, and her husband relocated from Syracuse, N.Y., to Raleigh, N.C., in 2016 to be near their son and grandchildren, who were then 4 and 6 years old.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Put into shackles and forced to labor in the limestone quarries of Syracuse, the captive characters speak in a working-class Dublin dialect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The New York City-raised Syracuse alumnus has been enamored with the Lakers since the Showtime Era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Orange’s quarterback has attracted attention from Colorado State and Syracuse, with the junior visiting New York for a tour recently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

It was the king of Syracuse who asked Archimedes to determine whether his crown was pure gold or had been mixed with lead, a task beyond the abilities of all the scientists at the time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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