Heroic: Definition and part of speech

Heroic

  1. a. Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; — said of the representation of a human figure.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
  3. a. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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