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hero | American Dictionary

hero
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɪər·oʊ/pluralheroes(femaleheroine, us/ˈher·oʊ·ɪn/)
a person admired for bravery, great achievements, or good qualities
literature
The hero is the main character of a story, play, or movie.

heroic

adjective[ not gradable ]us/hɪˈroʊ·ɪk/
The ceremony at City Hall honored the heroic acts of firefighters who lost their lives.

Examples of hero

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Folk heroes made their appearances.
Aristophanes' heroes of comedy and you will discover 'the citizen', because citizenship exists through the shared desires found in shared experience - including that of the theatre of comedy.
In most instances, the drama revolved around the hero's dilemma in resolving these opposing forces, and the denouement celebrated his triumphant reconciliation of duty and love.
Their heroes were the unsung traditional musicians who continued to live in rural obscurity while playing their music in the most ' ' pure' ' and ' 'authentic' ' manner possible.
When they do, we call them heroes.
Firmly embedded as the formative experience of a hero's childhood, the simple fact that it is all a fiction is, perhaps, a futile point to make.
Wilfulness in the children of others is regarded as an offence against these heroes; but blame is usually attached to the parents, not to the children themselves.
While all heroes understood the requirements of their own age, and possessed the strength of character to meet these, their special insights and abilities were only appropriate in particular circumstances.
Peel may have disregarded the men who did nothing but eat and drink, but they had strong expectations, conditioned by memories of previous tory heroes, of how he should act.
At least one said that the message was too pessimistic and did not provide appropriate heroes, but others stated that the music effectively expressed the text.
Each generation is held under an obligation to transmit to the next the customary ways of life, whose origin is attributed to mythical heroes of the past.
In popular late nineteenth-century works that blurred factual historical narratives with fictional figures and boyhood heroes, the myth left a discernible impression on many authors and their readership.
The hero's body was thus restored not to the sovereign to whom he had bequeathed it but to that mass of individuals he so often called the mob.
In this way, history now admits that our young heroes of 1956 were right.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
With rebellion came the birth of a terrible beauty and, for the rebels, a rebirth as heroes and martyrs.
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action hero
However, they also wanted him to grow more flexible near the end of the film, transforming into an actionhero.
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