Usually means: Descriptive phrases identifying qualities, characteristics.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word epithets:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. epithets: Merriam-Webster
  2. epithets: Collins English Dictionary
  3. epithets: Vocabulary.com
  4. Epithets, epithets: Wordnik
  5. epithets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. epithets: Wiktionary
  7. epithets: Dictionary.com
  8. epithets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Epithets: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Epithets: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epithets: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epithets: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See epithet as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (epithet)

noun:  A term used to characterize a person or thing.
noun:  (mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
noun:  A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
noun:  One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
noun:  An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
noun:  (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
verb:  (transitive) To term; to refer to as.
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