Definitions for epic

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epic ep·ic

Spelling: [ep-ik]

IPA: /ˈɛp ɪk/

Epic is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in epic (ceip).

Definitions for epic

noun

1. an epic poem.
2. epic poetry.
3. any composition resembling an epic.
4. something worthy to form the subject of an epic:
5. (initial capital letter). Also called Old Ionic. the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic.

adverb

1. Slang. very; extremely:

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style:
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry:
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great:
4. of unusually great size or extent:
5. Slang. spectacular; very impressive; awesome:

Origin of epic

1580-90; Latin epicus Greek epikós. See epos, -ic

Examples for epic

He now finds himself at the epic center of a firestorm having earlier been caught on camera throwing “liquids” at the police.

That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”

An epic story of the Great West from which the famous picture was made.

In the third place the epic, in which there are heroes and other lesser personages.

Excerpted from Capitol Men: The epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray.

And what an epic, what a Biblical numbering of that people suggested itself!

He had aspired to construct an epic figure after visiting the pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt in 1855.

Neil deGrasse Tyson weighed in on what the epic film got wrong and right.

And its incorporation is by no means equivalent to the pollution of epic.

She speaks in equal ruptures of an opera dancer and an epic poet.