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Odessa¹

  • /əʊˈdɛsə/ UK
  • /oʊˈdɛsə/ US

Rhymes with -ɛsə

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun

  1. A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
  2. A raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
  3. An oblast of Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
  4. A community in the township municipality of Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
  5. A village in the Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  6. A ghost town in Kings County, California, United States.
  7. A small town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
  8. A census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States.
  9. A tiny city in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States.
  10. A city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States.
  11. A census-designated place in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
  12. A village in Schuyler County, New York, United States.
  13. An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
  14. A city, the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.
  15. A small town in Lincoln County, Washington, United States.
  16. An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.

Odessa²

  • /əʊˈdɛsə/ UK
  • /oʊˈdɛsə/ US

Rhymes with -ɛsə

Where it comes from

Uncertain; possibly from the placename, with usage influenced by the name Odysseus.

proper noun

  1. A female given name. 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.

ODESSA³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German ODESSA.

proper noun

  1. A German organization founded after WWII, believed to have helped SS officers to flee from Europe.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: midland, rivage, shore, shoreline, brody, odesa, oleshky, horodok, oleksandrivsk, ukrainsk, yuzhne, nova odesa, vylkove, ananiv, ukrainka, novodruzhesk

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name city in Ukraine

EspañolOdesa, Odessa
한국어오데사 Odesa
日本語オデッサ
中文敖德薩 /敖德萨 Áodésà
हिन्दीओडेसा oḍesā
PortuguêsOdessa
FrançaisOdessa
DeutschOdessa
ItalianoOdessa, Odesa, Ginestra
ΕλληνικάΟδησσός Odissós
RomânăOdesa, Odessa
РусскийОде́сса Odéssa
العربيةأُودِيسَا ʔudīsā, أُدِسَّة ʔudissa
עבריתאוֹדֶסָה odésa

name oblast of Ukraine

РусскийОде́сская о́бласть Odésskaja óblastʹ

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@misc{odessa_2026,
  title = {Odessa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/odessa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}