epic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic

   Epic tradition.

2. 2
   noun

   An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

   The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

3. 3
   noun

   A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

   The book was an epic in four volumes.

4. 4
   noun

   A large or extended user story.

   Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).

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