Homeric
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
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of heroic dimensions; grand; imposing.
Homeric feats of exploration.
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling Homer or his poems
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imposing or heroic
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of or relating to the archaic form of Greek used by Homer See epic
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Etymology
Origin of Homeric
First recorded in 1765–75; from Latin Homēricus, from Greek Homērikós; equivalent to Homer + -ic
Example Sentences
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It’s a Homeric voyage, if Homer were familiar with the complicated system of roadways and toll stations that is the New Jersey Turnpike.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
But like the Homeric Greek hero it was named after, the lander has not had an easy journey with a neat happy ending.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024
In Ari Aster’s new film “ Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023
He’s not a Homeric classical heroic — by which, I mean someone whose intention is always to do good.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022
It was strange that a boy who could fight like that and enjoy it so intensely never quarreled, never fought, and he had almost nothing to say about this really Homeric battle.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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