Ulysses
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name
(Roman mythology) Latin name form of Odysseus
A city, the county seat of Grant County, Kansas, United States. Named after Ulysses S. Grant.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
It occurs to you that Ulysses is about cliché. It is about inherited, ready-made formulations - most notably Irish Catholicism and anti-Semitism. After all, prejudices are clichés: they are secondhand hatreds... Joyce never uses a cliché in innocence.
Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.