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for Epic
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Epic \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.
[1913 Webster]
The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a
grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Epic \Ep"ic\, n.
An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
epic
adj 1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary
(especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of
heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: heroic,
larger-than-life]
2: constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a
literary epic; "epic tradition" [syn: epical]
n : a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: epic
poem, heroic poem, epos]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "epic":
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
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
EPIC
Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
EPIC
European Public sector Information systems Conference
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
EPIC
Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel)
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