say it: SIR-uh-kyooz
syracuse is a noun meaning "a city in central New York". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)
Sicily
the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse
Sicily
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for syracuse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.