odyssey

See also: Odyssey

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒd.ɪ.si/, /ˈɒd.ə.si/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.dɪ.si/, /ˈɑ.də.si/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔd.ɪ.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^[1], 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

• Asturian: odisea f
• Bulgarian: одисея (bg) f (odiseja)
• Catalan: odissea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遠航／远航 (zh) (yuǎnháng)

• Esperanto: odiseado
• Finnish: odysseia, seikkailu (fi), harharetki
• French: odyssée (fr) f
• Galician: odisea f
• German: Odyssee (de) f
• Greek: οδύσσεια (el) f (odýsseia)
• Italian: odissea (it) f
• Kazakh: одиссея (odisseä)
• Ladino: odisea
• Macedonian: одисе́ја f (odiséja)
• Polish: odyseja (pl) f
• Portuguese: odisseia (pt) f
• Romanian: odisee (ro) 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: 遠征 (zh) (yuǎnzhēng), 奧德賽／奥德赛 (zh) (Àodésài)

• Macedonian: одисе́ја f (odiséja)
• Portuguese: odisseia (pt) f
• Russian: одиссе́я (ru) f (odisséja)
• Spanish: odisea (es) f