英语词汇“epic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	epic
释义	epic —epically, adv. —epiclike, adj. /ep"ik/, adj. Also, epical. 1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem. 2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country. 3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war. 4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions. n. 5. an epic poem. 6. epic poetry. 7. any composition resembling an epic. 8. something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic. 9. (cap.) Also called Old Ionic. the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic. [1580-90; < L epicus < Gk epikós. See EPOS, -IC]
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