Antonyms for epics


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ep-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛp ɪk


Definition of epics

Origin :
  • 1580s, perhaps via Middle French épique or directly from Latin epicus, from Greek epikos, from epos "word, story, poem," from PIE *wekw- "to speak" (see voice). Extended sense of "grand, heroic" first recorded in English 1731. The noun meaning "an epic poem" is first recorded 1706.
  • noun long story
Example sentences :
  • The first epics were popular about the end of the eleventh century.
  • Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews
  • The French and the Teutonic epics are at opposite extremes of style.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • The French epics are addressed to the largest conceivable audience.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • The fault, however, lies with the translators rather than with the epics.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 » by Various
  • It appears as stories, in narrative poems or epics, and in novels.
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
  • There is more real poetry in the brain of these dear loves than in twenty epics.
  • Extract from : « Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete » by Gustave Droz
  • Gurnemanz combines the persons and acts of the Gurnemanz and Trevrezent of the epics.
  • Extract from : « Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas » by W. J. Henderson
  • References are made in the Epics to their combats with human beings.
  • Extract from : « Indian Myth and Legend » by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
  • Nor is it clear that my epics, to be perfect, would need to be quite endless.
  • Extract from : « Why we should read » by S. P. B. Mais
  • The unity of the Epics is not so important a topic as the methods of criticism.
  • Extract from : « Homer and His Age » by Andrew Lang

Synonyms for epics

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