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# homeric

«homeric» in Mova's school dictionary: **of or like Homer, the ancient Greek poet who wrote the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (rare; no change in form)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Homeric means of or like Homer, the ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#m1)

2) Homeric means grand, heroic or huge, like the great battles and long journeys in those old poems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in lessons it links a tale or a version of a story to the ancient Greek poet Homer; in stories a Homeric fight is a long, epic battle

### examples

- The Highland version of the tale is as fine as the Homeric one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#x1)
- In the Homeric age, people believed in a sad life after death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#x2)
- Our class read a Homeric tale about a brave hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#x3)
- The storm lasted a Homeric three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homeric» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeric/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.