Definitions for EPOS

EPOS ep·os

Spelling: [ep-os]
IPA: /ˈɛp ɒs/

Epos is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in EPOS (eops).

Definitions for EPOS

noun

  1. an epic.
  2. epic poetry.
  3. a group of poems, transmitted orally, concerned with parts of a common epic theme.
  4. a series of events suitable for treatment in epic poetry.

Origin of EPOS

1825-35; Latin Greek épos speech, tale, song; akin to Latin vōx voice, Sanskrit vácas word, hymn

Examples for EPOS

The masterpiece of Camoens, the Lusiads, is the epos of discovery.

It is skill in arms and strength which gains their wives for the heroes of the epos.

In other passages also the epos speaks of widowed queens with all honour.

epos, p. 65, places the fragment in the Finn episode, between ll.

The Veda, the epos, and all tradition was on the side of the Brahmans.

Elegy, as we have seen, was the first slight deviation from epos.

The epos, too, knows Myken "rich in gold," and the "wealthy" Odeomenos.

The ancient tradition is on the whole truly kept in the epos.

The abduction of maidens and wives is more frequent in the epos.

Herein lay its most sublime creation; here was its poem, its drama, its epos.

Word Value for EPOS
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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