heroic

adj
/hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪk/UK/hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/US/ˈhiro.ɪk/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from hērōicus
  2. borrowed from heroïque

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a hero or heroine

    Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.

    • heroic deeds
  2. Courageous

    Courageous; displaying heroism.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • “I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead,” he says early on—not an especially heroic sentiment.
  3. Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A heroic verse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heroic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heroic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at heroic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA