Usually means: Grand, heroic narrative; large scale.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word epic:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. epic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. epic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epic, epic: Wordnik
  7. epic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. EPIC, Epic, epic: Wiktionary
  9. epic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. epic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. EPIC: Dictionary.com
  13. epic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. epic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EPIC (TV channel), EPIC (form factor), Epic (Blood on the Dance Floor album), Epic (Borknagar album), Epic (Faith No More song), Epic (Kostick novel), Epic (R. Kelly album), Epic (Sandro Silva and Quintino song), Epic (Sharon Van Etten album), Epic (TV channel), Epic (disambiguation), Epic (film), Epic (game), Epic (genre), Epic (magazine), Epic (novel), Epic (song), Epic (video game), Epic (web browser), Epic, Epic, The Epic (EP), The Epic (album), The Epic (building), The Epic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Epic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. epic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. epic: Rhymezone
  19. epic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. epic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. EPIC: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Epic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. epic: Free Dictionary
  24. epic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. epic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. epic: Global Glossary
  2. Epic: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epic, epic: Literary Terms
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  6. EPIC: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epic (disambiguation), epic: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. EPIC: Netlingo
  2. EPIC: CCI Computer
  3. EPIC: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Epic (disambiguation), epic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. EPIC: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. epic: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. EPIC: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. epic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. epic: The Folk File
  3. EPIC, The Epic, epic: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See epical as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
noun:  A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
noun:  (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
adjective:  Of or relating to an epic.
adjective:  Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
adjective:  (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
adjective:  (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
adjective:  Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.
noun:  (electronics) Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.
noun:  (law) Acronym of Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
adjective:  (dated) Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”). [Of or relating to an epic.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics. [An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.]

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