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Webster 1913 Edition
Heroine
1.
A woman of an heroic spirit.
The
heroine
assumed the woman’s place. Dryden.
2.
The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.
Webster 1828 Edition
Heroine
HER'OINE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
heroine
heroine
English
Noun
heroine (plural heroines, masculine hero)
- A female hero.
- A female lead character.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre:
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
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Usage notes
- In sense 1, hero, the masculine of heroine, is sometimes used, though it is still acceptable to use the feminine.
- She is an American hero (or heroine).
- Like feminine nouns formed with the suffix -ess, heroine refers only to females, whereas hero can refer to both males and females.
- Who is your favorite hero? (answer can refer to either sex)
- Who is your favorite heroine? (answer can refer only to females)
Translations
female hero
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