Question of the Day #173

"Bill O’Reilly Just Ridiculed Jake Tapper. Tapper’s Response Is Brutally Epic"
From the headline of this article at Verified Politics.

上記の文で、epic の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "epic" mean?

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解答

意味： 英辞郎によると、


〈米俗〉素晴らしい、最高の

Answer

According to :

extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope

Etymology/語源

Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、

「壮大」や「英雄的」の意味で初めて使用されたのが、1731年。

According to Online Etymology Dictionary:

Extnded sense of "grand, heroic" first recorded in English 1731.

Examples

• We took an epic car trip down the coast in 70's.
• It was an epic failure.
• his genius was epic
• Neil deGrasse Tyson weighed in on what the epic film got wrong and right.
• That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”