epopee
Americannoun
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an epic.
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epic poetry.
noun
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an epic poem
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epic poetry in general
Etymology
Origin of epopee
1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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To the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
GOGOL.—Russian taste was already veering to the epic novel or epopee in prose, of which Gogol was the most illustrious representative until Tolstoy.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
Herder calls the "Messiah" a Christian epopee, in musical sounds.
From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore
The popularity of the French epopee extended beyond France.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
The word epopee is also, but more rarely, employed to designate the same thing, ἐποποιὸς in Greek being a maker of epic poetry, and ἐποποιΐα what he makes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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