odyssey

odyssey

See also: Odyssey

English

Etymology

From Odyssey, from Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεία (Odusseía, “the story of Odysseus”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.dɨ.si/, /ˈɒ.də.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.dɨ.si/, /ˈɑ.də.si/

Noun

odyssey (plural odysseys)

1. An extended adventurous voyage.
   • 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy & Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com‎, CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08:

     Many have been sharing cartoons praying for a successful conclusion to the Wild Boar team's odyssey, hoping that it will end in their safe rescue.

2. An intellectual or spiritual quest.

Translations

extended adventurous voyage

Chinese: Mandarin: 远航 (zh) Esperanto: odiseado French: odyssée (fr) f German: Odyssee (de) f Greek: οδύσσεια (el) f (odýsseia) Polish: odyseja (pl) f

Portuguese: odisseia (pt) f Russian: одиссе́я (ru) f (odisséja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: одисеја f Roman: odiseja f Spanish: odisea (es) f Tagalog: odiseya, odisea

intellectual or spiritual quest

Chinese: Mandarin: 远征 (zh), 奥德赛 (zh) Portuguese: odisseia (pt) f

Russian: одиссе́я (ru) f (odisséja) Spanish: odisea (es) f