Ulysses
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ulysses in British English:
UK [ju(:)ˈlisi:z]
How to pronounce Ulysses in American English:
US [jʊˈlɪsˌiz]
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- Noun:
- Roman misspelling for Odysseus
Word Origin
- Ulysses
- Latin name for Odysseus, from Latin Ulysses, Ulixes. Famous for wandering as well as craftiness and ability at deceit. For -d- to -l- alteration, see lachrymose.
Example
- 1. I feel like ulysses straining against the ropes , butthey hold fast .
- 2. So maybe then , mr. obama will actually be another ulysses s. grant , who wrote the most celebrated presidential memoir of all time .
- 3. They had no similar exposure to , say , slave-owner thomas jefferson or civil war general ulysses grant .
- 4. Former u. s. president ulysses s. grant visited scotland to admire this feat of engineering .
- 5. Gen ulysses grant , who commanded victorious union armies in the civil war and was later president , was the son of a tanner .