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Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey, spends 20 years traveling home from the Trojan War. He has astonishing adventures and learns a great deal about himself and the world; he even descends to the underworld to talk to the dead. Thus, an odyssey is any long, complicated journey, often a quest for a goal, and may be a spiritual or psychological journey as well as an actual voyage.
Examples of odyssey in a Sentence
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2025
My 45-minute flight back to D.C. turned into a six-hour odyssey with a diversion through Richmond, Virginia — an unwelcome reminder that weather is by far the biggest cause of air travel delays.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 3 July 2025
The odyssey of a Fort Lauderdale attorney who disappeared with at least $630,000, some of which was intended for an octogenarian woman’s care, went to Philadelphia, returned to Fort Lauderdale and will end in Texas.
—David J. Neal, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
The structure is not dissimilar from a classic episode of another FX comedy-drama hybrid, Atlanta, where Paper Boi’s attempt to get a haircut from his favorite barber led him on an odyssey of crime and misfortune.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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“Odyssey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/odyssey. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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named for the Odyssey, a long poem from ancient Greece telling the story of the 10-year wanderings of Odysseus, a Greek hero and king
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