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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Epic \Ep"ic\, adjective [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.
The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Epic \Ep"ic\, noun An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, adjective
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
epic
adjective
1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: {heroic}, {larger-than-life}]
2: constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition" [syn: {epical}]
noun: a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: {epic poem}, {heroic poem}, {epos}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
EPIC European Public sector Information systems Conference
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
EPIC Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel)
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