Ithaca

[ ith-uh-kuh ]

/ ˈɪθ ə kə /

noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 Best Cities for College Grads |Richard Florida |May 26, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

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

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Such a passage fits very ill an island lying, as Ithaca does, just to the east of Cephalonia.

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The poem of Odysseus, or Ulysses, king of the island of Ithaca.

The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883 |The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle
Flint came back to the Café Ithaca the following night, alone.

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So they decided to put up at a hotel in Ithaca, and went around to a new place called the Students' Rest.

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There are more caterers and florists in Ithaca than in Hayt's Corners.

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British Dictionary definitions for ithaca

Ithaca

/ (ˈɪθəkə) /

noun

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 name: Itháki (iˈθaki)

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