Her"o*ine (?), n. [F. h'eroine, L. heroina, Gr. , fem. of . See Hero.]

1.

A woman of an heroic spirit.

The heroine assumed the woman's place. Dryden.

2.

The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.

 

© Webster 1913.

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