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Another word for heroine

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Noun

  1. A female hero

    See also:

    idol

    hero

    celebrity

  2. Leading female character in a literary composition

    See also:

    star

    cast

    actress

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Sentence Examples

  • Newly crowned heroine Lydia Larkin won the election by eight votes.

  • The story of the heroine is annually celebrated by a play in which the villagers take part.

  • "How's your spaced-out heroine doing?" he asked.

  • Medea is the heroine of extant tragedies of Euripides and Seneca; those of Aeschylus and Ennius (adapted from Euripides) are lost.

  • At Hermione, Artemis was worshipped under the name of Iphigeneia, thus showing the heroine in the last resort to be a form of that goddess (Pausanias ii.

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