Ulysses definition

yo͝o-lĭsēz
Odysseus.
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(name, person, proper) A masculine name.
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Origin of ulysses

  • Latin Ulixēs, Ulyssēs from Greek dialectal Olusseus variant of Greek Odusseus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ulysses Sentence Examples

  • Contemporary with these three men was Ulysses Aldrovandus, a Bolognese, who wrote an Historia Naturalium in sixteen folio volumes, most of which were not printed till after his death in 1605; but those on birds appeared between 1599 and 1603.

  • The establishment of the " national " or popular " school is attributable chiefly to Andrew Dugonics, though his earliest works, Troia veszedelme (1774) and Ulysses (1780), indicate a classical bias.

  • He was christened Hiram, after an ancestor, with Ulysses for a middle name.

  • Most of those studies of home-life in England, which formed so highly popular a section of Tennyson's work - such as "The Gardener's Daughter," "Walking to the Mail," and "The Lord of Burleigh" - were now first issued, and, in what we have grown to consider a much higher order, "Locksley Hall," "Ulysses," and "Sir Galahad."

  • It is said to derive its name from Baios, the helmsman of Ulysses, whose grave was shown there; it was originally, perhaps, the harbour of Cumae.

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