Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A number of poems, not formally united, that treat an epic theme.
- noun An epic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An epic poem, or its subject; an epopee; epic poetry.
- noun In ancient prosody, a dactylic hexameter.
- noun In paleography, a series of words or letters, approximately of the length of a dactylic hexameter, anciently used as a line of normal size in writing manuscripts or estimating their length.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An epic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
epic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- noun a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The epos is the calm quiet representation of an action in progress.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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In this way he discovers amidst these ruins the thread of an old connection, a kind of epos, the theme of which was the glorification of the people of Israel, a theme which finds a prelude even in the primitive history of the human race.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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(TSX: SEG), a Canadian-owned Mexican-based mining operations company; TVN Niagara Inc., a venture vying to become the Niagara Peninsula's first over-the-air television broadcaster; AGS Inc., an "epos"
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Aims to give an account of what he calls 'poetry' (for him, the term includes the lyric, the epos, and the drama).
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Aims to give an account of what he calls 'poetry' (for him, the term includes the lyric, the epos, and the drama).
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The argument that it is ‘complicated’ is spurious as retail chains manage to calibrate their epos systems with different rates.
Will Amazon Lose Sales Because It Collects New York Taxes? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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BRINKLEY: He really helped create his legacy as creating this incredible wild America epos (ph).
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Here occur the questions, Where and When was written and to Whom do we owe a prose-poem which, like the dramatic epos of Herodotus, has no equal?
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Born in Paris labored in the epos of our flowed generation.
Amelia Rosselli greenintegerblog 2008
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We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers.
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