1 showing extreme courage and admired by many people:
a heroic figure * Rescuers made heroic efforts to save the crew.
2 showing great determination to succeed or to achieve sth, especially sth difficult:
We watched our team's heroic struggle to win back the cup.
3 that is about or involves a hero:
a heroic story / poem * heroic deeds / myths
4 very large or great:
This was foolishness on a heroic scale.
heroically adverb:
She worked heroically to help others escape.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for heroic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is heroic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, heroic is tagged as adjective.
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