national epic
noun
An imaginative work, especially a literary one, considered to embody a nation's conception of its own history, or the most significant events in that history.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), author, biographer, and historian.
- beatific
- beatifically
- beatification
- beatify
- beating
- beating-up
- beatitude
- Beatle-esque
- Beatlemania
- Beatlemaniac
- Beatles
- Beatles-esque
- Beatlesque
- beat-match
- beat-matching
- beatnik
- beat off
- beat officer
- beat one's breast
- beat one's (or the) meat
- be at one's wits' end
- Beaton, Sir Cecil
- beat (or bang) the drum of (or for)
- be at (or have come to) an end
- beat (or kick) the shit out of