🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

叙事詩的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: josjiteki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Epique/eˈpik/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その物語は叙事詩的な展開を見せた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of an epic; grand, heroic, or monumental in scale.

    "The film concluded with an epic battle sequence that spanned over twenty minutes."
As noun
  1. 1

    A long poem or other work of art that tells the story of a hero's grand adventures.

    "Homer's Odyssey is a foundational literary epic of the Western world."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the URL-encoded string representing the French word 'épique' (or Portuguese 'épico' via URL encoding artifacts of IPA/diacritics). Ultimately tracing back to Ancient Greek 'epikos' (εἰπικός) from 'epos' (word, story, poem), entering Western Romance languages during the Renaissance to describe grand heroic narratives.

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