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“Epic” or “Epoch”

epic / epoch are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

epic EH·p·ih·k

  • adjectivevery imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale).
  • adjectiveconstituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.

epoch EH·p·ah·k

  • noun(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded.
  • nouna unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages.
Usage

Examples in context

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“epic”

  • His first hit from Epic came that year with the
  • …Scott's 2012 science fiction horror epic Prometheus has been described as
  • …and Cleo and "Maccabee" an epic poem in free verse based…
  • …to CBS Records and later Epic Records, and changed their name…
  • …became famous through the Kabuki epic Chūshingura and their graves became…
  • Epic in scope, much of Fluxion's…
  • …in singing and recitations of epic 'poems' and 'ancient texts' that…
  • …initial commercial pressings on the Epic label.
  • …lyrics into a place of epic romance as part of a…
  • …audience who will experience this epic and rich sci-fi property as…

“epoch”

  • …and young gentlemen of that epoch were required daily to learn…
  • …name accurately reflect a social epoch in full explosion".
  • …solely from late Ordovician, Caradoc epoch, fossils found in Europe and…
  • …ago to the late Eocene Epoch.
  • …expressive of an artist's own epoch and yet keep a relationship…
  • …species during the present geological epoch, now known as the Holocene
  • An introduction to the Epoch of Justinian the Great'', Harvard…
  • During the Nitrate Epoch the government increased public spending…
  • At the same epoch, the Greeks were established in…
  • …the community about 1710, an epoch coinciding with the schism which…

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