n. & adj.
n. 1 a long poem narrating the adventures or deeds of one or more heroic or legendary figures, e.g. the Iliad, Paradise Lost. 2 an imaginative work of any form, embodying a nation's conception of its past history. 3 a book or film based on an epic narrative or heroic in type or scale. 4 a subject fit for recital in an epic.
adj. 1 of or like an epic. 2 grand, heroic. epical adj. epically adv.
[ L epicus f. Gk epikos f. epos word, song ]