SUPREME WORD DU JOUR: ODYSSEY
PRONUNCIATION:
(AH-duh-see)
MEANING:
(noun):
A long eventful journey or experience.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Odysseus, whose
10-year wandering after the fall of Troy is described in Homer's epic poem, the
Odyssey. Earliest documented
use: 1886.
USAGE:
"In The Beast, ... journalist Oscar
Martinez chronicled the treacherous odysseys that Central Americans undertake
as they cross Mexico. ... The 'beasts' of the title are the trains on which the
travelers ride not in boxcars, as American hobos did in earlier times, but on
the roofs."
Harold Meyerson; A New Children's March; The Washington Post; Jun 19, 2014.
Harold Meyerson; A New Children's March; The Washington Post; Jun 19, 2014.
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