Pertaining to that species of poetical composition (see epos n.), represented typically by the Iliad and Odyssey, which celebrates in the form of a continuous narrative the achievements of one or more heroic personages of history or tradition.Įpic dialect: that form of the Greek language in which the epic poems were written. and n.įorms: Also 15–18 epick, 16 epique, (epik).Įtymology: < Latin epicus, < Greek ἐπικός, < ἔπος word, narrative, song. Here’s the OED entry for epic: epic, adj. Has this usage always been technically correct? How about appropriate? If I am mistaken, I will forever hold my peace. I would love to tell people as a matter of fact that the word doesn't mean what they think it means due to my personal annoyance with its overuse, but I don't know if I have a leg to stand on. Is it fair to say that the word's meaning is being very much stretched in the first example, and in the way you would commonly hear it lately? ( That pizza was epic!, I had an epic hangover.) Heroic majestic impressively great: the epic events of the war. I can't help but think that this was written by someone who is personally guilty of abusing the word themselves. (colloquial) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary extraordinary, momentous, great. I was recently referred to Wiktionary as a trusted source, and I see this example in use: The word "epic" has been overused for quite some time now. For a team that ranks in the bottom third in caring for the ball, this was a triumph of epic proportions.You know what I mean.
The country is facing a famine of epic proportions.
The rest of the country is missing an epic work. Brecht later worked out of this mould in his different epic theatre. What they added was a sense of grandeur - they took blues licks and put them on a epic scale. As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film. The dinner they gave him ranks among the epic brawls which regularly give the brotherhood of socialist solidarity a bad name. the epic poem "Beowulf' Related topics: Literature epic epic 2 adjective 1 AL STORY an epic book, poem, or film tells a long story about brave actions and exciting events an epic tale of mutiny on the high seas epic poetry 2 an epic event continues for a long time and involves brave or exciting actions his epic journey to South America 3 BIG very large and impressive He had produced a meal of epic proportions. "The Iliad" is perhaps the most studied epic of all time. The history of a single event has been spun out to fill a 255 page epic. This junk pile just happens to be our epic. Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics. Or rent one of the old Steve Reeves muscle epics. Luo said in a telephone interview from Wuhan that he began preparing his epic in 1988. Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste, or one of those biblical epics. 
The film was billed as an epic - an adventure story that would take the world and the box-office by storm. ○○ noun A STORY a book, poem, or film that tells a long story about brave actions and exciting events a Hollywood epic ► see thesaurus at story Examples from the Corpus epic. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Arts epic ep‧ic 1 / ˈepɪk /
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