odyssey
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- noun
- /ˈɑːdɪsi/
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odisea
- After graduating, she embarked on an odyssey across Europe, exploring new cultures and meeting diverse people.
- a personal odyssey
- a long odyssey
- a spiritual odyssey
It's sort of, you know, like Homer's odyssey, a long voyage which is going to have a lot of traumatic events.
- It's sort of, you know, like Homer's odyssey, a long voyage which is going to have a lot of traumatic events.
- I am, I'm going through my fundamental odyssey, the past of life of mining.
Examples
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They're leading an orphaned flock of geese south... ... on an unprecedented 500-mile odyssey.
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The naturalist concluded his account of the pair's odyssey at its inevitable end.
Fiction book (1990) -
Follow the light and we can find our odyssey.
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I had ambitions to set out and find... like an odyssey of going home somewhere.
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And every passage to the wilderness, like the Odyssey, is a journey toward home and home meaning who we really are.
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Dana, you and I are going on this odyssey together.
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That you are stepping out into this extraordinary odyssey to answer the highest of callings.
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My Jewish odyssey ran parallel to the American one, but was not intimately connected with history.
Academic text (1993) -
Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area is likely the most intriguing location in our odyssey on the Oregon coast.
Academic text (2008) -
The three-month odyssey will lead Scar and the other youngsters through perilous terrain.
Synonyms
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A long difficult journey on foot through rough land
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A long exciting trip with adventure and many challenges
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A long adventurous journey with danger and heroic deeds
A long important trip with hard tests that changes a person like stories about heroes
How Adventurous
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word odyssey comes from the name of the Greek hero Odysseus, whose long travels are told in an old poem called 'The Odyssey' by Homer. So today an odyssey means a long, adventurous journey with many changes and surprises.