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heroine

noun
/ˈhɪɹoʊɪn/US/hiro.ɪn//ˈhɛɹəʊɪn/UK

Etymology

From Latin hērōīna, from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero, demigod”), equivalent to hero + -ine (suffix forming feminine nouns). * English from 1587. The sense of "female lead character" is from 1715.

  1. derived from ἡρωΐνη
  2. borrowed from hērōīna

Definitions

  1. A female hero.

  2. A female lead character.

  3. Characteristic of a heroine

    Characteristic of a heroine; heroic.

    • Her Brows ſoft Fur was of a paler Dye, / Conformable to that which prettily / Peep’d on her upper Lip, and cowardly / Made shew of Heroine Virility.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Obsolete spelling of heroin.

      • […] 1,451 ounces of heroine hydrochloride, and 19 ounces of codeine — the equivalent of 16,273 pounds of opium.
      • No manufacture of heroine is lawful in the United States of America, but it is permitted in some countries under the same conditions as for other narcotics under international control.

The neighborhood

Derived

anti-heroine, antiheroine, Byronic heroine, heroinely, heroineship, heroinic, heroinism, heroinize, mother heroine, superheroine, tragic heroine

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at heroine

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