"epic poem" meaning in English

See epic poem in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: epic poems [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} epic poem (plural epic poems)
  1. A long, formal story written in verse that describes the grand adventures and heroic deeds of a major figure. Coordinate_terms: epic poetry
    Sense id: en-epic_poem-en-noun-FiBA4ph3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Literature, Poetry
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epic poems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "epic poem (plural epic poems)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literature",
          "orig": "en:Literature",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poetry",
          "orig": "en:Poetry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "epic poetry"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long, formal story written in verse that describes the grand adventures and heroic deeds of a major figure."
      ],
      "id": "en-epic_poem-en-noun-FiBA4ph3"
    }
  ],
  "word": "epic poem"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epic poems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "epic poem (plural epic poems)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Literature",
        "en:Poetry"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "epic poetry"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long, formal story written in verse that describes the grand adventures and heroic deeds of a major figure."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "epic poem"
}

Download raw JSONL data for epic poem meaning in English (0.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.