epopee

[ ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

epopee

/ ˈɛpəʊˌpiː; epɔpe; ˌɛpəˈpiːə /

Origin of epopee¹

1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia

Origin of epopee¹

C17: from French épopée, from Greek epopoiia, from epos + poiein to make

Later to develop than the national epopee was that which formed the cycle of antiquity.

But Gogol's glory is not derived solely from his epopee of the Cossacks.

To the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.

The rhythm of these spiritual transformations is the epopee of Jean Christophe.

The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted.

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