Odysseus

noun

Odys·seus ō-ˈdi-sē-əs

-ˈdis-yəs,

-ˈdi-shəs,

-ˈdi-ˌshüs

: a king of Ithaca and Greek leader in the Trojan War who after the war wanders 10 years before reaching home

Examples of Odysseus in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As the primary customer for the Odysseus mission, NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to take its scientific payloads to the moon. —

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024 High Culture What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son. —

Big Think, 24 June 2024 But the clock was ticking for Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft after touching down on February 22 near the Moon's south pole. —

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024 Most recently, a private lunar lander called Odysseus successfully landed on the moon in the first U.S. mission to the moon since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1972. —

Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Odysseus

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