noun Download 🔗Share A term used to characterize a person or thing. Examples : "The unkind student used the epithet "lazy" to describe his classmate. " language literature writing word character style person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. Examples : "The student, known for his late arrivals, jokingly accepted the epithet "Mr. Always Late." " literature language writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing. Examples : "My little brother, known by the epithet "the troublemaker," was causing a lot of noise again. " literature language word style phrase writing mythology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase. Examples : "The angry customer hurled the epithet "incompetent" at the cashier. " language word communication character negative Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A 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. Examples : "In the scientific name Escherichia coli, "coli" is the species epithet. " biology science organism word linguistics plant animal microorganism Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To term; to refer to as. Examples : "He was epitheted "the king of fools"." language word communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
