ULYSSES

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• ULYSSES (noun)
  The noun ULYSSES has 1 sense:

1. (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus

  Familiarity information: ULYSSES used as a noun is very rare.

• ULYSSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

 Context examples 

Juno scientists compared data from NASA's past missions to Jupiter (Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and Ulysses) to a new model of Jupiter's magnetic field (called JRM09).

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)

In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material, which were later confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

In the 1800s, the buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction not only for their valuable hides but also because many U.S. generals, including President Ulysses S. Grant, believed that removing the buffalo would undermine the economies of many of the Native American tribes that depended on them for food and goods and make it easier to push them onto reservations.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)