Epic

/ˈɛp.ɪk/ · noun

Meaning

An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero..

Definitions by Sense

1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.
3. (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
4. Of or relating to an epic.
5. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.
6. (colloquial) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
7. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.

Example Sentences

The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

The book was an epic in four volumes.

These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!

Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

Beowulf is an epic poem.

The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.

The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations

China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]

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• epics
• epick
• more epic
• most epic

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