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heroine

noun as in woman noted for courageous acts

noun as in principal female character

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Example Sentences

In it, her young heroine remarks, “At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”

There, Hunter, clearly a romantic at heart, provides her heroine with a potential partner: an American soldier, Thomas, whom Lili meets on the city’s streets.

But loss looks different for their heroine now, as it might for fans, too.

From Salon

After almost a decade away, hapless heroine Bridget Jones is back.

From BBC

However, she emerged as the heroine, redeeming herself with a 95th-minute winner to ensure City avoided a second defeat by the Gunners in the space of five days.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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