Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: stringent
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
epic: Meaning and Definition of
ep•ic
Pronunciation: (ep'ik), [key]
— adj.
- an epic poem.
- epic poetry.
- any composition resembling an epic.
- something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.
- (cap.) Also calledthe Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic.
See also:
- epic (Thesaurus)
