plural odysseys
Definition of odyssey
1
: a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
his odyssey from rural South to urban North, from poverty to affluence, from Afro-American folk culture to a Eurocentric world of books— J. E. Wideman
2
: an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest
an odyssey of self-discovery a spiritual odyssey from disbelief to faith
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The first known use of odyssey was in 1886
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