noun🔗ShareA term used to characterize a person or thing."The unkind student used the epithet "lazy" to describe his classmate. "languageliteraturewritingwordcharacterstylepersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person."The student, known for his late arrivals, jokingly accepted the epithet "Mr. Always Late." "literaturelanguagewritingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareOne of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing."My little brother, known by the epithet "the troublemaker," was causing a lot of noise again. "literaturelanguagewordstylephrasewritingmythologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn abusive or contemptuous word or phrase."The angry customer hurled the epithet "incompetent" at the cashier. "languagewordcommunicationcharacternegativeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name."In the scientific name Escherichia coli, "coli" is the species epithet. "biologyscienceorganismwordlinguisticsplantanimalmicroorganismChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo term; to refer to as."He was epitheted "the king of fools"."languagewordcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading