odyssey
/'ɔdisi/
Definition
- Noun:
- A long and eventful journey or series of experiences: An "odyssey" refers to an extended, often adventurous, and typically wandering voyage marked by significant events, challenges, or personal changes.
- A Greek epic poem: Specifically, "The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, detailing the long and perilous journey home of the hero Odysseus after the Trojan War.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- Her year spent backpacking across Asia was a true odyssey of self-discovery.
- The documentary follows the team's scientific odyssey to the depths of the ocean.
- We studied Homer's "Odyssey" in our literature class.
Advanced Usage
- "an intellectual odyssey": a long and complex process of learning, exploration, or discovery in the realm of ideas.
- His research project turned into a ten-year intellectual odyssey.
- "a spiritual odyssey": a profound, often lengthy, personal journey of spiritual seeking or transformation.
- The pilgrimage was a spiritual odyssey that changed her life.
Variants and Related Words
- Odyssean (adj): Pertaining to or resembling an odyssey; long, adventurous, and full of trials.
- The expedition had an Odyssean quality, filled with unexpected turns.
- Odysseus (n): The legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the protagonist of Homer's "Odyssey."
Synonyms
- Journey: An act of traveling from one place to another.
- Voyage: A long journey involving travel by sea or in space.
- Pilgrimage: A journey, often to a sacred place, for moral or spiritual reasons.
- Quest: A long or arduous search for something.
- Expedition: A journey undertaken by a group with a particular purpose, especially exploration or research.
Related Phrases
- "to embark on an odyssey": to begin a long and eventful journey or undertaking.
- After graduation, she embarked on an odyssey to work in every continent.
- "an odyssey through...": used to describe a journey that traverses a particular domain (e.g., history, a country, a subject).
- The book is an odyssey through 20th-century art.
Related Idioms
- "An odyssey of the mind": A phrase describing a deep, extensive, and challenging intellectual pursuit.
- Writing his thesis was an odyssey of the mind.
- "A modern-day odyssey": Used to describe a contemporary journey that is long, difficult, and transformative, mirroring the themes of the ancient epic.
- His recovery from the accident was a modern-day odyssey.
Noun
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a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
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a long wandering and eventful journey
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