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Epic

Epic Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Epic? [n] a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [adj] surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale; "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [adj] constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Epic: big \| epic poem \| epical \| epos \| heroic \| large \| larger-than-life Related Terms \| Find terms related to Epic: account \| alba \| anacreontic \| anecdotage \| anecdote \| balada \| ballad \| ballade \| bucolic \| canso \| chanson \| chronicle \| clerihew \| dirge \| dithyramb \| eclogue \| elegy \| English sonnet \| epigram \| epithalamium \| epode \| epopee \| epopoeia \| epos \| georgic \| ghazel \| haiku \| Horatian ode \| idyll \| Italian sonnet \| jingle \| limerick \| lyric \| madrigal \| monody \| narration \| narrative \| narrative poem \| nursery rhyme \| ode \| palinode \| pastoral \| pastoral elegy \| pastorela \| pastourelle \| Petrarchan sonnet \| Pindaric ode \| poem \| prothalamium \| rhyme \| rondeau \| rondel \| roundel \| roundelay \| saga \| Sapphic ode \| satire \| sestina \| Shakespearean sonnet \| sloka \| song \| sonnet \| sonnet sequence \| story \| tale \| tanka \| tenso \| tenzone \| threnody \| triolet \| troubadour poem \| verse \| verselet \| versicle \| villanelle \| virelay \| yarn See Also \| Aeneid \| chanson de geste \| heroic verse \| Iliad \| Nibelungenlied \| Odyssey \| poem \| rhapsody \| verse form Epic In Webster's Dictionary \Ep"ic\, a. [L. epicus, Gr. ?, from ? a word, speech, tale, song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. ['e]pique. See {Voice}.] Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold. \Ep"ic\, n. An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a.

Epic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Epic?

[n] a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
[adj] surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale; "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"
[adj] constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"

Epic In Webster's Dictionary

\Ep"ic\, a. [L. epicus, Gr. ?, from ? a word, speech, tale,
song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. ['e]pique. See {Voice}.]
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a
kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in
which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of
some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.

      The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a
      grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.


\Ep"ic\, n.
An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a.

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