Heroic - Wiktionary

English

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Alternative forms

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• heroick

Etymology

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Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus.[1] By surface analysis, hero +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA(key): /hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/

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• (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈhiro.ɪk/
• Hyphenation: he‧ro‧ic
• Rhymes: -əʊɪk

Adjective

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heroic (comparative more heroic, superlative most heroic)

1. Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble. Synonym: Homeric heroic deeds
2. Courageous; displaying heroism.
   • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎[1], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:To stand upon the ramparts and die for our principles is heroic. To sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
   • 1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek):Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything… that's heroic.
3. (sculpture) Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.

Synonyms

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• herolike

Antonyms

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• cowardly

Derived terms

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• antiheroic
• heroically
• heroic assumption
• heroic cooling
• heroic couplet
• heroic dose
• heroic epic
• heroicize
• heroicly
• heroic medicine
• heroic meter
• heroicness
• heroicomic
• heroicomical
• heroics
• mock-heroic
• nonheroic
• postheroic
• preheroic
• pseudoheroic
• semiheroic
• sheroic
• superheroic
• ultraheroic
• unheroic

Related terms

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• hero
• heroine
• heroism

Translations

[edit] of or relating to a hero or heroine

Armenian: հերոսական (hy) (herosakan) Belarusian: геро́йскі (hjerójski) Bulgarian: геро́йски (bg) (gerójski) Catalan: heroic (ca) Chinese: Hokkien: 豪邁 / 豪迈 (hô-māi) Danish: heroisk Esperanto: heroa Estonian: please add this translation if you can French: héroïque (fr) Galician: heroico Georgian: please add this translation if you can Greek: ηρωικός (el) (iroïkós) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: heroik (id) Irish: gaisciúil Italian: eroico (it) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: херојски (herojski) Norwegian: Bokmål: heroisk Nynorsk: heroisk Ottoman Turkish: قوچاق (koçak) Polish: bohaterski (pl), heroiczny (pl) Portuguese: heróico (pt) Romanian: eroic (ro) Russian: геро́йский (ru) (gerójskij) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Swedish: heroisk (sv) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: геро́йський (herójsʹkyj), звитя́жний (zvytjážnyj) Volapük: (♂♀) heroedanik, (♂) hiheroedanik, (♀) jiheroedanik

of or relating to heroism

Arabic: بُطُولِيّ (buṭūliyy) Armenian: հերոսական (hy) (herosakan) Belarusian: гераі́чны (hjeraíčny), геро́йскі (hjerójski) Bulgarian: герои́чен (bg) (geroíčen) Catalan: heroic (ca) Czech: hrdinský (cs), heroický (cs) Danish: heltemodig, heroisk Dutch: heldhaftig (nl), heroïsch (nl) Esperanto: heroa Finnish: sankarillinen (fi), urhoollinen (fi) French: héroïque (fr) Galician: heroico Georgian: გმირული (gmiruli) German: heldenhaft (de), heroisch (de) Greek: ηρωικός (el) (iroïkós) Ancient: ἀγήνωρ (agḗnōr) Ido: heroala (io), heroatra (io) Irish: laochúil Kazakh: қаһармандық (qaharmandyq), ерлік (erlık), батырлық (batyrlyq) Macedonian: херојски (herojski) Norwegian: Bokmål: heroisk Nynorsk: heroisk Occitan: eroïc Ottoman Turkish: قوچاق (koçak) Polish: bohaterski (pl), heroiczny (pl) Portuguese: heróico (pt) Romanian: eroic (ro) Russian: герои́ческий (ru) (geroíčeskij), геро́йский (ru) (gerójskij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ју̀на̄чкӣ, хѐро̄јски Roman: jùnāčkī (sh), hèrōjskī (sh) Slovak: hrdinský, heroický Slovene: junaški Spanish: heroico (es) Swedish: heroisk (sv) Ukrainian: герої́чний (herojíčnyj), геро́йський (herójsʹkyj), звитя́жний (zvytjážnyj) Volapük: heroedik (vo)

Noun

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heroic (plural heroics)

1. A heroic verse.

See also

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• heroics

References

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1. ^ “heroic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2014.

Anagrams

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• coheir, cheiro-, orchie

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin hērōicus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾɔjk]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [eˈɾɔjk]

Adjective

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heroic (feminine heroica, masculine plural heroics, feminine plural heroiques)

1. heroic

Derived terms

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• heroicament

Related terms

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• heroi
• heroïna
• heroisme

Further reading

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• “heroic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007