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# odyssey

«odyssey» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, exciting journey full of adventures and difficulties** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an odyssey, odysseys); proper noun (the Odyssey)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long, exciting journey full of adventures and difficulties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#m1)

2) (the Odyssey, a name) An ancient Greek epic poem, said to be by Homer, about the hero Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in literature and history (myths, Greek legends: the Cyclops, the Sirens, Penelope waiting for Odysseus), and in everyday talk and stories for any long, eventful trip or experience ("Our journey to Granny's was a real odyssey").

### examples

- The Odyssey tells how Odysseus sailed home from Troy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x1)
- Getting home in the snow was a three-day odyssey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x2)
- In the Odyssey, Odysseus tricks the Cyclops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x3)
- Our school trip turned into an odyssey when the coach broke down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x4)
- The film follows a dog's odyssey to find its family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x5)
- Learning to read was a long odyssey for him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/#x6)

### note

Capital O for the poem ("the Odyssey"), lower case for any long journey. Plural "odysseys". Spelling: o-d-y-s-s-e-y. Related: Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «odyssey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odyssey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.