epopee
an epic.
epic poetry.
Origin of epopee
1- Also ep·o·poe·ia [ep-uh-pee-uh]. /ˌɛp əˈpi ə/.
Words Nearby epopee
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How to use epopee in a sentence
Later to develop than the national epopee was that which formed the cycle of antiquity.
A History of French Literature | Edward DowdenBut Gogol's glory is not derived solely from his epopee of the Cossacks.
Russia: Its People and Its Literature | Emilia Pardo BazánTo the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 | William WaltonThe rhythm of these spiritual transformations is the epopee of Jean Christophe.
Romain Rolland | Stefan ZweigThe poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
British Dictionary definitions for epopee
epopoeia (ˌɛpəˈpiːə)
/ (ˈɛpəʊˌpiː, French epɔpe) /
an epic poem
epic poetry in general
Origin of epopee
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