Usually means: Descriptive phrase expressing a characteristic.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word epithet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. epithet: Merriam-Webster
  2. epithet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epithet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epithet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epithet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epithet, epithet: Wordnik
  7. epithet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. epithet: Wiktionary
  9. epithet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epithet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. epithet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. epithet: Dictionary.com
  13. epithet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. epithet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Epithet (disambiguation), Epithet (taxonomy), Epithet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Epithet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. epithet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. epithet: Rhymezone
  19. Epithet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. epithet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. epithet: FreeDictionary.org
  22. epithet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. epithet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. epithet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. epithet: Global Glossary
  2. Epithet: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. EPITHET: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epithet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epithet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epithet: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epithet: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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