Epic

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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           The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a
           grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Epic \Ep"ic\, n.
     An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 [moby-thes]:

  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) [vera]:

  EPIC
       Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  EPIC
       European Public sector Information systems Conference
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  EPIC
       Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel)