epic

9 definitions found

epic - 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.
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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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  Epic \Ep"ic\, n.
     An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
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epic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  epic
      adj 1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary
             (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of
             heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: epic,
             heroic, larger-than-life]
      2: constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary
         epic; "epic tradition" [syn: epic, epical]
      n 1: a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: epic poem
           , heroic poem, epic, epos]

epic - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  EPIC
         Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing
         

  EPIC
         Eclipse PERL Integration Project (Eclipse, PERL)
         

  EPIC
         Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
         

  EPIC
         European Public sector Information systems Conference
         

  EPIC
         Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel, CPU)
         

epic - 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