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English
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Etymology
Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus. By surface analysis, hero + -ic.
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Adjective
heroic (comparative more heroic, superlative most heroic)
- Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
- heroic deeds
- Courageous; displaying heroism.
1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek):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.
- (sculpture) Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.
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of or relating to a hero or heroine
of or relating to heroism
- Arabic: بُطُولِيّ (buṭūliyy)
- Armenian: հերոսական (hy) (herosakan)
- Belarusian: гераі́чны (hjeraíčny), геро́йскі (hjerójski)
- Bulgarian: герои́чен (bg) (geroíčen)
- Catalan: heroic (ca)
- Czech: hrdinský (cs), heroický (cs)
- Danish: heltemodig, heroisk
- Esperanto: heroa
- Finnish: sankarillinen (fi), urhoollinen (fi)
- French: héroïque (fr)
- Galician: heroico
- Georgian: გმირული (gmiruli)
- German: heldenhaft (de), heroisch (de)
- Greek: ηρωϊκός (iroïkós)
- Ancient: ἀγήνωρ (agḗnōr)
- Ido: heroala (io), heroatra (io)
- Irish: laochúil
- Kazakh: қаһармандық (qaharmandyq), ерлік (erlık), батырлық (batyrlyq)
- Macedonian: херојски (herojski)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: heroisk
- Nynorsk: heroisk
- Occitan: eroïc
- Ottoman Turkish: قوچاق (koçak)
- Polish: bohaterski (pl), heroiczny (pl)
- Portuguese: heróico (pt)
- Romanian: eroic (ro)
- Russian: герои́ческий (ru) (geroíčeskij), геро́йский (ru) (gerójskij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ју̀на̄чкӣ, хѐро̄јски
- Roman: jùnāčkī (sh), hèrōjskī (sh)
- Slovak: hrdinský, heroický
- Slovene: junaški
- Spanish: heroico (es)
- Swedish: heroisk (sv)
- Ukrainian: герої́чний (herojíčnyj), геро́йський (herójsʹkyj), звитя́жний (zvytjážnyj)
- Volapük: heroedik (vo)
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Noun
heroic (plural heroics)
- A heroic verse.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hērōicus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
heroic (feminine heroica, masculine plural heroics, feminine plural heroiques)
- heroic
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