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) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.dɪ.si/, /ˈɑ.də.si/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔd.ɪ.si/

Noun

odyssey (plural odysseys)

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.
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

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