Syracuse

American  

[sir-uh-kyoos, -kyooz] / ˈsɪr əˌkyus, -ˌkyuz /

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

Example Sentences

Canada's Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory - but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York.

From BBC

Even so, college basketball GMs like Alex Kline at Syracuse University stress that managing money and player relationships requires careful judgment.

From MarketWatch

About the author: Mike Harris is the founder of Cribstone Strategic Macro and the director of Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management London program.

From Barron's

Mr. Koppl is a professor of finance at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s critical in terms of how people listen to holiday music, said Bill Werde, director of Syracuse University’s Bandier Program for Recording and Entertainment Industries.

From MarketWatch