Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female hero; a heroine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A heroine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
heroine ; afemale hero .
Etymologies
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hero + -ess
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Examples
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"We are meeting to sing praises not to the high and mighty but to bestow on unsung heroess what they deserve in the face of danger.
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