epopee
[ ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee ]
/ ˈɛp əˌpi, ˌɛp əˈpi /
noun
an epic.
epic poetry.
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Also ep·o·poe·ia [ep-uh-pee-uh] /ˌɛp əˈpi ə/.
Words nearby epopee
eponym, eponymous, eponymy, epoophorectomy, epoophoron, epopee, epos, epoxidation, epoxide, epoxidize, epoxy
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Example sentences from the Web for epopee
The rhythm of these spiritual transformations is the epopee of Jean Christophe.
Romain Rolland|Stefan ZweigTo the epopee succeeds the bourgeois drama, not to say the comedy.
Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1|William WaltonThe 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)But Gogol's glory is not derived solely from his epopee of the Cossacks.
Russia: Its People and Its Literature|Emilia Pardo Bazán
British Dictionary definitions for epopee
epopee
epopoeia (ˌɛpəˈpiːə)
/ (ˈɛpəʊˌpiː, French epɔpe) /
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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