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U⋅lys⋅ses

[yoo-lis-eez; also Brit. yoo-luh-seez]
–noun
1. Latin name for Odysseus.
2. (italics) a psychological novel (1922) by James Joyce.
3. a male given name.

O⋅dys⋅se⋅us

[oh-dis-ee-uhs, oh-dis-yoos]
–noun Classical Mythology.
king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
Latin, Ulysses.
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U·lys·ses   (yŏŏ-lĭs'ēz')   
n.   Mythology
Odysseus.

[Latin Ulixēs, Ulyssēs, from Greek dialectal Olusseus, variant of Greek Odusseus.]
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