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Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of

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Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. T. Arnold.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EPIC)

• Song
• Poem
• lay
• ballad
• strain
• ditty
• carol
• anthem
• epic
• lyric

Related words: (words related to EPIC)

• ANTHEMIS
  Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DITTY
  p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended
• CAROLING
  A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
• CAROLINE
  A coin. See Carline.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CAROLUS
  An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• LYRIC; LYRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.
• CAROLINIAN
  A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
• BALLADRY
  Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
• CAROL; CARROL
  A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.
• ANTHEMWISE
  Alternately. Bacon.
• LYRICALLY
  In a lyrical manner.
• ANTHEMION
  A floral ornament. See Palmette.
• CAROLINA PINK
  See PINKBOOT
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• BALLADER
  A writer of ballads.
• STRAIN
  1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• MESEMBRYANTHEMUM
  A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• EXANTHEMA
  An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• CAROL
  together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol,
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.