epos

American  

[ep-os] / ˈɛp ɒs /

noun

1. an epic.

2. epic poetry.

3. a group of poems, transmitted orally, concerned with parts of a common epic theme.

4. a series of events suitable for treatment in epic poetry.

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epos ¹ British  

/ ˈɛpɒs /

noun

1. a body of poetry in which the tradition of a people is conveyed, esp a group of poems concerned with a common epic theme

2. another word for epic

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EPOS ² British  

/ ˈiːpɒs /

acronym

1. electronic point of sale

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Etymology

Origin of epos

1825–35; < Latin < Greek épos speech, tale, song; akin to Latin vōx voice, Sanskrit vácas word, hymn

Example Sentences

What came across in the documentary as an uncomfortable mix produces a satisfying combination in an outsized epos like this one, the two impulses tempering and complementing each other.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2018

Brother Saul, a Christian epos, is aimed at men of all faiths everywhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green.

From Time Magazine Archive

The background is the pre-Hellenic 'Urdummheit'; the new shape impressed upon it is the great anthropomorphic Olympian family, as defined in the Homeric epos and, more timidly, in Hesiod.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

In the Third Book of the latter epos we have already seen Nestor sacrificing to his divine ancestor; so the present passage has its pertinence to the total poem.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques