Odyssey Definition

ŏdĭ-sē
odysseys
noun
Any extended wandering or journey.
Webster's New World
An ancient Greek epic poem, ascribed to Homer, about the wanderings of Odysseus during the ten years after the fall of Troy.
Webster's New World

An intellectual or spiritual quest.

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An epic poem, ascribed to Homer, that describes the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.

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Other Word Forms of Odyssey

Noun

Singular:
odyssey
Plural:
odysseys

Origin of Odyssey

  • From Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεία (Odusseia).

    From Wiktionary

  • After the Odyssey

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Odyssey.

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Odyssey Sentence Examples

  • I think I shall enjoy the "Odyssey" most of all.

  • In the Odyssey we already find the Crete.

  • In 182 2 he was sent to the Kreuzschule at Dresden, where he did so well that, four years later, he translated the first twelve books of the Odyssey for amusement.

  • We learn from Suetonius that, like Ennius after him, he obtained his living by teaching Greek and Latin; and it was probably as a school-book, rather than as a work of literary pretension, that his translation of the Odyssey into Latin Saturnian verse was executed.

  • The epic of Gudrun is not unworthy to stand beside the greater Nibelungenlied, and it has been aptly compared with it as the Odyssey to the Iliad.

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