noun
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a body of poetry in which the tradition of a people is conveyed, esp a group of poems concerned with a common epic theme
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another word for epic
acronym
Etymology
Origin of epos
1825–35; < Latin < Greek épos speech, tale, song; akin to Latin vōx voice, Sanskrit vácas word, hymn
Example Sentences
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What came across in the documentary as an uncomfortable mix produces a satisfying combination in an outsized epos like this one, the two impulses tempering and complementing each other.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2018
Brother Saul, a Christian epos, is aimed at men of all faiths everywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gros was the parent of the grand battle-pictures of the future; the painter of the Napoleonic epos.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
The style is that of the Ionian or Homeric epos; but there are also several traces of the Hesiodic or Boeotian school.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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