odessa
/oʊˈdɛsə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A locale in the United States:
name
A locale in the United States:
name
A locale in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "George Bixler, cashier, and Miss Odessa Moser, bookkeeper, were not suspicious when three men entered the bank at 10:15 A. M. wearing firemen's blue jackets and jumpers and with their faces smeared as though with engine grease."
- "The marriage of Miss Odessa Elizabeth Milford, daughter of J. Davis Milford of Columbus, Ga., and the late Mrs. Milford, to Theodore John Hahn, son of Mrs. Theodore F. Hahn and the late Rev. John Hahn of Baltimore, took place this afternoon at Brown Memorial Church with the Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, officiating."
- "Mrs. Odessa Wright Donnelly, who retired after thirty years' service with the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association in 1957, died Friday at her home at 246 West 150th Street after a short illness."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Оде́сса (Odéssa), named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby. Ancient Greek Ὀδησσός (Odēssós). Compare Ukrainian Оде́са (Odésa). The city was on the former Turkish territory of Yedisan, which may have influenced the choice of name. Yedisan means "seven titles" i.e. tribes, from yedi + san.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ὀδησσός, ODESSA
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /oʊˈdɛsə/
- British English: /əʊˈdɛsə/
Derived Forms
Phrases
Little Odessa
Odessa Oblast
Odessa Raion