Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has great courage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A very brave person.

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Examples

  • Instead we have Stuart Pearce, the lion-heart with the flag of St George in his back garden.

    FA insists that Harry Redknapp will not be the only candidate 2012

  • Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart king in prison.

    Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Distant Celestial Fires Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

  • He should watch over the manyheaded monster like a good husbandman, fostering and cultivating the gentle qualities, and preventing the wild ones from growing; he should be making the lion-heart his ally, and in common care of them all should be uniting the several parts with one another and with himself.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • And thence my spirit the impress took, and many a lion-heart chief I drew,

    The Frogs 2000

  • "How know you, my brave lion-heart; you belong to those days, but I am content."

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • And thence my spirit the impress took, and many a lion-heart chief I drew,

    The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Ha! Richard of the lion-heart, thou art a coward now!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

  • They had found the Cathedral, —and a statue of Richard the Lion-hearted, over the spot where the lion-heart itself was buried; “the identical organ, ” fat Sergeant Hicks assured him.

    IV. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

  • They had found the Cathedral, -- and a statue of Richard the Lion-hearted, over the spot where the lion-heart itself was buried; "the identical organ," fat Sergeant Hicks assured him.

    One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • ‘Next to her I saw Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, who lay in the arms of mighty Zeus, and bare Heracles of the lion-heart, steadfast in the fight.

    Book XI Homer 1909

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