Heroine
['herəʊɪn] or ['hɛroɪn]
Definition
(noun.) the main good female character in a work of fiction.
(noun.) a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds.
Checked by Alfreda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A woman of an heroic spirit.
(n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.
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Examples
- They are not the thoughts of a model heroine under her circumstances, but they are those of a deeply-feeling, strongly-resentful peasant-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As has been already seen, he deprived our heroine of the right of transmitting her letters direct by the ambassador's bag. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She wasn't a heroine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By the present audience of two persons, no dramatic heroine could have been expected with more interest than Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If this is a novel without a hero, at least let us lay claim to a heroine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It did not seem at all comical to Meg, who kissed and caressed the afflicted heroine in the tenderest manner. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Little Sharp, with her secret griefs, was the heroine of the day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And add Helena's name also, for she is a heroine, cried Maurice gayly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- No, you have acted the heroine quite enough. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These are but trivial incidents to recount in the life of our heroine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ginevra gradually became with me a sort of heroine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He wanted Jo for his heroine, and called upon his memory to supply him with tender recollections and romantic visions of his love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine suppose that Mr. Crawley was interested in her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And, after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoresses' heroes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. Plato. The Republic.
- Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I too have my heroines waiting for me in all the woods about here. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Typist: Morton