Epic

Noun

 * 1) An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.
 * The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
 * 1) A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
 * The book was an epic in four volumes.

Synonyms

 * épopée
 * epos

Derived terms

 * epically
 * epicly
 * epicness
 * art epic
 * heroic epic
 * national epic

Adjective

 * Of, or relating to, an epic.
 * Beowulf is an epic poem.
 * 1) Momentously heroic
 * ''The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations
 * 1)  Extending beyond the usual or ordinary; extraordinary, momentous, great.
 * The after-prom party was epic.
 * China's epic traffic jam "vanished", AFP news story, Wednesday August 25, 2010

Synonyms

 * epical

Thesaurus
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, account, alba, anacreontic, anecdotage, anecdote, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chronicle, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narration, narrative, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, saga, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, story, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, yarn

Alternative forms

 * epick

Etymology
From epicus:, from   ἐπικός:, from ἔπος:.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: dastan
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 * Italian: epico


 * Japanese: (jojishi)
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 * Kyrgyz:
 * Mandarin: 史詩
 * Manx: ard-skeeal
 * Polish: epos, epopeja
 * Russian: эпос
 * Turkish: destan


 * Dutch: episch gebeuren/verhaal, heldendaden
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 * Italian: epico
 * Manx: ard-skeeal
 * Russian: эпопея

Adjective

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 * Manx: ard-skeealagh
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 * Polish: epicki, epiczny
 * Russian: эпический
 * Swedish: episk


 * Dutch:, heldhaftig
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 * Manx: ard-skeealagh
 * Russian: эпический


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Anagrams

 * ECPI
 * pice