epopee

American  

[ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee] / ˈɛp əˌpi, ˌɛp əˈpi /

Also epopoeia

noun

1. an epic.

2. epic poetry.

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epopee British  

/ ˈɛpəʊˌpiː, epɔpe, ˌɛpəˈpiːə /

noun

1. an epic poem

2. epic poetry in general

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Etymology

Origin of epopee

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

Example Sentences

O roi infortune,' commencing an epopee on the Incas.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick

C'est le roman, a la fois drame et epopee, pittoresque mais poetique, reel mais ideal, vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The French epopee had its origin in the national songs of the Germanic invaders of Gaul, adopted from their conquerors by the Gallo-Romans.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

This epopee in the history of the civil war will immortalize the army, but the strategian's immortality will differ from that of the army.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

Corneille is Latin, Racine is Greek; the very name of Childebrande suffices to cover an epopee with ridicule.—Pellissier, pp. 7-8.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)