epopee

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

noun

an epic.

epic poetry.

Also ep·o·poe·ia

[ep-uh-pee-uh] /ˌɛp əˈpi ə/.

Origin of epopee

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

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Historical Examples of epopee

But Gogol's glory is not derived solely from his epopee of the Cossacks.
Russia: Its People and Its Literature
Emilia Pardo Bazán
To the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1
William Walton
The rhythm of these spiritual transformations is the epopee of Jean Christophe.
Romain Rolland
Stefan Zweig
The 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

epopee

epopoeia (ˌɛpəˈpiːə)

noun

an epic poem

epic poetry in general

Word Origin for epopee

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

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