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Grammar : Noun
Spell : od-uh-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒd ə si

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Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun journey
Example sentences :
  • I called him, and begged he would relate to me the Odyssey of his terrible night.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • What an Odyssey of adventures he would149 have to relate when he reached home!
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • The Odyssey is the story of his home-coming, his recovery of his own.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • The greatest scenes of the Iliad and the Odyssey have little to do with myth.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • The Iliad and Odyssey became text-books for the instruction of Greek youth.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • Ho' mer—the greatest of the Greek poets and author of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey."
  • Extract from : « Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca » by Homer
  • The tales of his escapes from the sheep-farm have grown into a sort of Odyssey of the Pentlands.
  • Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
  • Herein the Odyssey does not contradict the Iliad, but is clearly an advance beyond it.
  • Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
  • Moreover the entire series is but an organic part of the Odyssey.
  • Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
  • In these four Books of the Odyssey the education of the Homeric youth has been given.
  • Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider

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