Homeric
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
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of heroic dimensions; grand; imposing.
Homeric feats of exploration.
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling Homer or his poems
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imposing or heroic
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of or relating to the archaic form of Greek used by Homer See epic
Other Word Forms
- Homerically adverb
- non-Homeric adjective
- post-Homeric adjective
- pre-Homeric adjective
- pseudo-Homeric adjective
Etymology
Origin of Homeric
First recorded in 1765–75; from Latin Homēricus, from Greek Homērikós; equivalent to Homer + -ic
Example Sentences
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It’s a Homeric voyage, if Homer were familiar with the complicated system of roadways and toll stations that is the New Jersey Turnpike.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
In a sense, the imagined grotesquerie of the Homeric Sirens was yet another way for patriarchs to repress the ambivalence of other voices.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
And don’t get me started on the Homeric list of passwords we each must maintain to access online self-service, passwords we are constantly advised to change because some platform or other has just been hacked.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022
In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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