odyssey
nounfeminineliterário/ɔ.diˈsɐj.ɐ/medium
o·dis·sei·a
Definition
A long journey full of extraordinary events, adventures, and difficulties. By extension, any long, complex experience full of vicissitudes.
The journey back home after the shipwreck was a real odyssey.
Obtaining that bureaucratic document turned into a months-long odyssey.
Common collocations
a real odysseypersonal odysseyspace odyssey
Etymology
Do latim "Odyssea", por sua vez do grego "Ὀδύσσεια" (Odýsseia), poema épico atribuído a Homero.