epic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
epic
    adj 1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary
           (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of
           heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: {epic},
           {heroic}, {larger-than-life}]
    2: constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary
       epic; "epic tradition" [syn: {epic}, {epical}]
    n 1: a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: {epic
         poem}, {heroic poem}, {epic}, {epos}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Epic \Ep"ic\, a. [L. epicus, Gr. ?, from ? a word, speech, tale,
   song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. ['e]pique. See {Voice}.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a
         grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Epic \Ep"ic\, n.
   An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a.
   [1913 Webster]
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
EPIC
       Eclipse PERL Integration Project (Eclipse, PERL)
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EPIC
       Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography)
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EPIC
       Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing
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EPIC
       European Public sector Information systems Conference
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
EPIC
       Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel, CPU)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "epic":
      English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
      Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, account, alba,
      anacreontic, anecdotage, anecdote, balada, ballad, ballade,
      bucolic, canso, chanson, chronicle, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb,
      eclogue, elegy, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia,
      epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric,
      madrigal, monody, narration, narrative, narrative poem,
      nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
      pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel,
      roundelay, saga, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet,
      sonnet sequence, story, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody,
      triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle,
      virelay, yarn
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