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

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epopee

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.

The critic is certainly in the right, for the reason already urged—the work of tragedy is on the passions, and in dialogue; both of them abhor strong metaphors, in which the epopee delights.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John

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.

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

It must suffice to reproduce here only the most beautiful and most characteristic passages of this little national epopee, a truly Homeric picture of the quasi-barbarous times and manners of knightly Christendom.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert