Masterpiece vs Epic - What's the difference?
masterpiece | epic |
A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.
* 1911 , (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis
*:The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece .
A work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship.
A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild.
(computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
(electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
(electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
(legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
As nouns the difference between masterpiece and epic
is that masterpiece is a piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career while epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.As an adjective epic is
of, or relating to, an epic.masterpiece
English
(wikipedia masterpiece)Noun
(en noun)- Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.