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Odyssey Definition

Odys·sey (ädi sē)

noun

  1. an ancient Greek epic poem, ascribed to Homer, about the wanderings of Odysseus during the ten years after the fall of Troy
  2. pl. -·seys any extended wandering or journey

Etymology: L Odyssea < Gr Odysseia

Odyssey Related Forms
Od′ys·sean adjective
Odyssey Usage Examples

Possessives

  • man: It's about a young man's odyssey, with football the landscape against which his journey unfolds.

Converse of object

  • begin: That conversation began a recording odyssey that was left incomplete when Sawtelle died at the age of 52 in 1999.
  • present: In Larry's Party Carol Shields presents an ironic odyssey through the life of modern man, from the late seventies through to 1997.
  • read: Quite a little thriller for those of you who have read the Odyssey, for pleasure or scholarship.
  • give: This gives Odyssey putters a soft feel with a responsive face.

Adjective modifier

  • musical: This new project is the latest part in Steve Reid's musical odyssey.
  • spiritual: I call it a spiritual odyssey, a kind of missionary voyage.
  • African: Together they present an African musical odyssey where township rhythms rub shoulders with Afrobeat as hi-life riffs follow jazz solos.
  • strange: Another - whom I will not name - has moved farther on, pursuing the strange Odyssey of his decadence.
  • personal: My concern here is not with Walcott's personal Odyssey.
  • French: As featured on BBC TV Rick Stein's French Odyssey.

Modifies a noun

  • complex: The cinema ad - being screened at the Warner Village cinema at Belfast's Odyssey complex - is part of a much wider campaign.
  • project: Titanic Park and the Odyssey project have been developed as well as some housing near to the Odyssey project.
  • production: The Odyssey production will be followed by a reception.
  • spacecraft: New neutron and gamma-ray observations made with the Mars Odyssey spacecraft have found evidence of extensive water ice in Mars ' polar soil.
  • room: Other options include the romantic Odyssey Rooms or the ultra-stylish Bombay Sapphire Experience.

Noun used with modifier

  • crown: In new york crown odyssey she a new brand.
  • jazz: A Jazz Odyssey The Life Of Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson & Richard Palmer Continuum Press, 2002 Hardback.
  • space: The Hubble is like Ulysses framed in a space Odyssey with an entire mythological universe to colonize.
  • year: Ay Family - has their 16 year Odyssey finally come to an end!
odyssey Quotes

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

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