odyssey

/'ɔdisi/

Thân thiện

A family embarks on an odyssey across the country in their camper van.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
2. a long wandering and eventful journey

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