Synonyms for epics
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ep-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛp ɪk |
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for epics
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