'EPIC' definitions:
Definition of 'epic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: epic, heroic, larger-than-life]
adjective
Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition" [syn: epic, epical]
noun
Definition of 'Epic'
From: GCIDE
- Epic \Ep"ic\, a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Epic'
From: GCIDE
- Epic \Ep"ic\, n. An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'epic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- chronicle,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narration,
- narrative,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- saga,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- story,
- tale,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- yarn
Acronyms for 'EPIC'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Eclipse PERL Integration Project (Eclipse, PERL)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
- Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing
- European Public sector Information systems Conference
- Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel, CPU, VLIW)