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

The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee: short spontaneous effusions prepare the way, and furnish materials for the architectonic genius of the poet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

It was a favorite thesis of Fielding, often repeated by his successors, that the novel is a sort of comic epopee.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

Herder calls the "Messiah" a Christian epopee, in musical sounds.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward

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 Walton, William

Nearer to our own time—that is, towards the fifth or sixth century of our era, lyric poetry and the drama were, as it were, detached from the epopee and existed on their own merits.

From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.