epic
noun
[ ˈɛpɪk ]
• a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.
Similar:
heroic poem,
long poem,
long story,
saga,
legend,
romance,
lay,
history,
chronicle,
myth,
fable,
folk tale,
folk story,
• an exceptionally long and arduous task or activity.
• "the business of getting hospital treatment soon became an epic"
epic
adjective
• relating to or characteristic of an epic or epics.
• "our national epic poem Beowulf"
Similar:
heroic,
long,
grand,
monumental,
vast,
Homeric,
Miltonian,
lofty,
grandiloquent,
high-flown,
high-sounding,
extravagant,
bombastic,
• heroic or grand in scale or character.
• "his epic journey around the world"
Similar:
ambitious,
heroic,
grand,
arduous,
extraordinary,
Herculean,
very long,
very great,
very large,
huge,
monumental,
Origin:
late 16th century (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek epikos, from epos ‘word, song’, related to eipein ‘say’.
