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.
Derivatives:
epical adj. epically adv.
Etymology: L epicus f. Gk epikos f. epos word, song