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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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 Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
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)
Yet The Condemned in Doubt is a sort of moral epopee, adapted to the stage, possessing real beauty and not without depth.
From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
In this view of the subject, every nation, if it would be worth any thing at all, must possess an epopee, to which the precise form of the epic poem is not necessary.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John
But what if he could have guessed the part he had passively played in obtaining it for its possessor—or the part that it was still to play in his own epopee?
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry
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