ITHACA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ithaca mean? 

• ITHACA (noun)
  The noun ITHACA has 2 senses:

1. a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga

2. a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king

  Familiarity information: ITHACA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITHACA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Ithaca" is a part of...):

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ithaca; Ithaki

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Ithaca" is a part of...):

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

 Context examples 

“Plastic debris acts like a marine motorhome for microbes,” says Joleah Lamb, research fellow at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and lead author of the study.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

The new paper, led by Alex Hayes at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, finds that Titan's seas follow a constant elevation relative to Titan's gravitational pull — just like Earth's oceans.

(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)

"The data suggest that something is not right, so to speak, inside Mimas," said Radwan Tajeddine, a Cassini research associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and lead author on the paper.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)