EPIC


Meaning of EPIC in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a lyric/narrative/epic etc poem (= a poem in a particular style )

the epic Greek poem, The Odyssey

an epic journey (= a very long and eventful journey )

Lewis and Clark made their epic journey across the continental United States in the early 1800s.

epic proportions (= very great size or importance )

An argument of epic proportions had ensued.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"The Iliad" is perhaps the most studied epic of all time.

the epic poem "Beowulf'

The film was billed as an epic -- an adventure story that would take the world and the box-office by storm.

The history of a single event has been spun out to fill a 255 page epic .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Luo said in a telephone interview from Wuhan that he began preparing his epic in 1988&.

Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste, or one of those biblical epics.

Or rent one of the old Steve Reeves muscle epics.

This junk pile just happens to be our epic .

Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

journey

John told of his epic journey , when he pedalled 12,500 miles from Sydney back to Liverpool for charity.

He is like a hero in one of his tapestries, on an epic journey of artistic discovery.

For teenagers like Nick, preparing for the epic journey seemed simple enough.

I had suggested that their epic journey through the mountains would make a good subject for a film.

I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself.

poem

The action of a traditional epic poem is further complicated in that it deals with the relation of human beings to gods.

Zach was to finish his epic poem and write a report on the Christmas Show.

poet

The first epic poet of a human group is the first individual.

By inventing a myth, the epic poet frees himself from the group.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.

Brecht later worked out of this mould in his different epic theatre.

The dinner they gave him ranks among the epic brawls which regularly give the brotherhood of socialist solidarity a bad name.

The rest of the country is missing an epic work.

There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal, Andrzej Wajda's epic film of the Warsaw uprising.

What they added was a sense of grandeur - they took blues licks and put them on a epic scale.

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