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adjective Also, ep·i·cal.
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resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
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heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
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of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
noun
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an epic poem.
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epic poetry.
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any composition resembling an epic.
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something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.
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Epic
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Example Sentences
- It's a while since I've read epic poetry, so it's slow going for now.
- There is an epic quality to this contest, a collision of two ultimately incompatible visions of America.
- Producing an epic has always been a huge risk for Hollywood studios.
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Word Origin & History
epic
1589, from L. epicus, from Gk. epikos, from epos "word, story, poem." Extended sense of "grand, heroic" first recorded in Eng. 1731. The noun meaning "an epic poem" is first recorded 1706.
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Cultural Dictionary
epic definition
A long narrative poem written in elevated style, in which heroes of great historical or legendary importance perform valorous deeds. The setting is vast in scope, covering great nations, the world, or the universe, and the action is important to the history of a nation or people. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid are some great epics from world literature, and two great epics in English are Beowulf and Paradise Lost.
Note: Figuratively, any task of great magnitude may be called “epic,” as in an “epic feat” or an “epic undertaking.”
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