Light Bulb on the Edison Tower, Edison, NJ. The story of the (formerly) third-oldest working light bulb is sad. The bulb reportedly was turned on in 1912, only four years after the one in Fort Worth, yet it received no accolades, no fame, no noble title, and ended its long life in obscurity.
Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Epic. Epic is a song by the American rock band Faith No More. It was released in 1989/1990 as the second single from their third album The Real Thing in US and in 1990 as their second single from that album in the UK and Europe. The song was a breakthrough hit.
Epic simile. Epic simile, also called Homeric simile, an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration. and the water darkens beneath it, so darkening were settled the ranks of Achaians and Trojans in the plain.