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What does epithet mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epithet? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  3. One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
  4. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  5. (taxonomy) 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.
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For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy.
The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.
Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed.
Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet.
When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
Indeed, yonderly in particular, when applied to persons, is an untranslatable epithet, and yet one which exactly describes certain types of mind.

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