Synonyms:
Ithaca, Ithaki
Meaning: a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
Synonyms:
Ithaca
Meaning: a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
Usage examples
"I will not refuse you," replied Telemachus, "if you wish to join us. Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably according to what we have."
I wish I were as certain of finding Ulysses returned when I get back to Ithaca, that I might tell him of the very great kindness you have shown me and of the many beautiful presents I am taking with me."
Are you not carried out of yourself, and does not your soul in an ecstasy seem to be among the persons or places of which you are speaking, whether they are in Ithaca or in Troy or whatever may be the scene of the poem?