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Homeric

Pronunciation: /həʊˈmɛrɪk/
Definition of Homeric

adjective

  • relating to or in the style of Homer or the epic poems ascribed to him.
  • relating to Bronze Age Greece as described in the Homeric poems:the mists of the Homeric age
  • epic and large-scale:some of us exert a Homeric effort

Origin:

via Latin from Greek Homērikos, from Homēros (see Homer)

Homeric in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Homeric in the US English dictionary
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