Proper noun
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.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI 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. Craig Raine
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. William Faulkner
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. Martin Amis
Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something. Kate DiCamillo
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. Frederick Douglass
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. Raymond Queneau