epic
IPA: ˈɛpɪk
noun
- An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
- A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
- (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
- (computing) Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.
- (electronics) Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.
- (law) Acronym of Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
- Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics. [An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.]
adjective
- Of or relating to an epic.
- Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
- (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
- (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
- Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.
- (dated) Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”). [Of or relating to an epic.]
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Examples of "epic" in Sentences
- In that epic, the hero is nearly flawless.
- 'The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic'.
- The music had a very epic and bombastic sound to it.
- Humankind must survive the epic battle of the monsters.
- The epic is considered the longest literary work in the world.
- Ravana was also the villain of the immortal epic, the Ramayana.
- However, the epic adventure is not always quite so stereotyped.
- Saucy is a college student with aspirations of epic proportions.
- Igorot epic poetry is about the life and heroism of the native Ifugao.
- He is the compiler of the best preserved version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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