A long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience.
journey, voyage, trek, travels, quest, crusade, pilgrimage, wandering, journeyingView synonyms
- ‘his odyssey from military man to politician’
Late 19th century from Odyssey.
A Greek hexameter epic poem traditionally ascribed to Homer, describing the travels of Odysseus during his ten years of wandering after the fall of Troy. He eventually returned home to Ithaca and killed the suitors who had plagued his wife Penelope during his absence.