epopee
Americannoun
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an epic.
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epic poetry.
noun
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an epic poem
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epic poetry in general
Etymology
Origin of epopee
1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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The poem is complete in itself, but it was designed as a fragment of that vast modern epopee, with humanity for the hero, of which La Chute d'un Ange was another fragment.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
To the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William
It is quite in accord with such a view of history that the machinery of this voluminous epopee is not set in motion by a single conspicuous protagonist.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
The popularity of the French epopee extended beyond France.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
Yet The Condemned in Doubt is a sort of moral epopee, adapted to the stage, possessing real beauty and not without depth.
From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
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