epic
/ˈep·ɪk/ n [C]Definition
› a book or movie that is long and contains a lot of action, usually about a subject from the past › literature An epic is also a long poem about events in the past, often involving gods or kings and queens: The Iliad is the most famous Greek epic.
(Definition of epic n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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