odyssey
pronunciation
How to pronounce odyssey in British English:
UK [ˈɒdəsi]
How to pronounce odyssey in American English:
US [ˈɑdəsi]
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- Noun:
- a long wandering and eventful journey
Word Origin
- odyssey (n.)
- c. 1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
Example
- 1. Why operation odyssey dawn should not stop at benghazi
- 2. In the odyssey homer unflatteringly compares odysseus to a fat sausage .
- 3. No one , not even mr wylie , is greatly excited by the commercial prospects of odyssey .
- 4. Mr wylie , despite his odyssey deal , says he does not want it to happen .
- 5. The concern is that odyssey represents the thin end of a large literary wedge .