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epopee
[ ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee ]
noun
- an epic.
- epic poetry.
epopee
/ ˈɛpəʊˌpiː; epɔpe; ˌɛpəˈpiːə /
noun
- an epic poem
- epic poetry in general
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of epopee1
C17: from French épopée, from Greek epopoiia, from epos + poiein to make
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Example Sentences
Later to develop than the national epopee was that which formed the cycle of antiquity.
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But Gogol's glory is not derived solely from his epopee of the Cossacks.
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To the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
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The rhythm of these spiritual transformations is the epopee of Jean Christophe.
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The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted.
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