Advanced ๐Ÿ“š Vocabulary ยท #356 of 1319

odyssey (n.)

a long adventurous journey

Examples

  • An epic odyssey.

Key rules

  • An odyssey is a long and adventurous journey, often full of challenges
  • An epic odyssey, a personal odyssey
  • Odyssey is countable

Common mistakes

  • It was an odyssey of a journey โ†’ It was a long odyssey
  • He began an odyssey for the sea โ†’ He began an odyssey across the sea

Use cases

  • Describing long adventures
  • Literary writing
  • Personal growth stories
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: Odyssey is from the Greek poem about a long journey home.

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