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Definitions: Heroine |
HeroineNoun1. The main good female character in a work of fiction. 2. A woman possessing heroic qualities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heroine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1688. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good Man | Model, paragon; (perfection); good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent; saint; (piety); benefactor; philanthropist; Aristides; noble liver, pattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heroine |
| English words defined with "heroine": antihero ♦ bodice ripper ♦ Charlotte Corday, Corday ♦ gallantry ♦ Heroess, heroism, Holofernes ♦ Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc, Judith ♦ Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont ♦ Ramayana ♦ Saint Joan ♦ valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heroine": Ambree ♦ Blanchefleur, Bradwardine ♦ Calista, Christabel, Consuelo ♦ Glasgow Arms ♦ Harlowe ♦ Jane Eyre ♦ Kailyal ♦ Lindabrides ♦ MacIvor, Maguelone, Minerva Press, Miranda ♦ Preciosa ♦ Sorrows of Werther. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "heroine": Heroess. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Heroine" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (heroine), Latin (demigodess, heroin). |
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Screenplays | It will be a love story for she will be my heroine for all time. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Maggie I call Heroine chic, and then next is Crazy Baby. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garca Estrada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heroine Jinfeng Yu (1956) White Lotus the Heroine (1953) Heroine of Deserted River (1950) Journey of the Heroine (1939) The Heroine of San Juan (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport / p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Manchester Bros., Providence, R.I.. |  | Pearl White as a dramatic heroine.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | She is the Heroine. |
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Lynda Carter | Right. And they think it has to be glamorous or it has to be the heroine or it has to be the lead. I just like to work. And I don't want to take projects that take me away from my family too much. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Heroine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.94% of the time. "Heroine" is used about 327 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.94% | 317 | 16,212 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.14% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.31% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 327 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "heroine": anti-heroine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heroine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | heldin (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | heroinë (heroin), personazh kryesor femër, gjysmëperëndeshë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مؤنث بجميع معانيها, بطلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | героиня. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 女英雄 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hrdinka, rekynì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | heroin (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, heroin), heltinde (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | heldin (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | heroino (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زنی که قهرمان داستان باشد, شیرزن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sankaritar, päähenkilö (hero, principal character). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | héroïne (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | heldinne (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heldin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηρωίδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אליל" (goddess), 'בור". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hõsnõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eroina (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 烈婦 (virtuous woman), 烈女 , 'ルベルト空" (fillet, heroic, heroism, Hilbert space, Hindu, hinge), 女傑 (brave woman, lady of character), 勇婦 (brave woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | 'ロイン , れつじょ, れっぷ (virtuous woman), ゆうふ (brave woman, married woman, valiant man), じょけつ (brave woman, lady of character). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben-eniagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | heltinne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | heroina (heroin), eroina (heroin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eroinehay bohaterka (heroin). (various references) heroína (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, heroin, heroism, snow). (various references) eroinã. (various references) героиня. (various references) heroina, junakinja. (various references) heroína (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, heroin, horse, smack). (various references) hjältinna (heroin). (various references) yarı tanrıça, kahraman (brave, character, Doughty, hero, heroic, protagonist, stout, stouthearted), kadin kahraman (heroin), kadın kahraman, eroín (heroin). (various references) героїня (virago). (various references) arwres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heroine": heroines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "heroine": antiheroine, superheroine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "heroine": antiheroines, superheroines. (additional references) | |
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"Heroine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eroine, ferrozine, hakone, Hardouin, harion, Harouna, harpine, Harradine, Havoline, Helonia, Heraline, hercine, herion, Herlin, herodians, Heroina, heroined, heroing, heroins, heroised, Heronim, hervine, Hervovie, Herziana, Higounet, hironen, huronian, Jerpoint, ketomine, Mhedrioni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heroine" (pronounced he"rōun) |
| 6 | h e" r ō u n | heroin. |
| 3 | -ō u n | bedouin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: herein, hereon, heroin, inhere. | |
-2 letters: heron, honer, irone, rhino. | |
-3 letters: erne, heir, here, hern, hero, hire, hoer, hone, horn, inro, iron, noir, nori, rein. | |
-4 letters: eon, ere, ern, hen, her, hie, hin, hoe, hon, ion, ire, nee, noh, nor, one, ore, ree, rei, rho, rin, roe. | |
-5 letters: eh, en, er, he, hi, ho, in, ne, no, oe, oh, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: coinhere, hereinto, heroines. | |
+2 letters: coinhered, coinheres, heronries, reechoing, reshoeing, shoreline, thereinto, threonine, whereinto. | |
+3 letters: antiheroes, echinoderm, incoherent, ionosphere, neighbored, perihelion, prehension, rhinestone, shorelines, threnodies, threonines. | |
+4 letters: amenorrheic, antiheroine, atherogenic, chernozemic, chinoiserie, coherencies, echinoderms, endothermic, erythrosine, fisherwomen, hemoprotein, hemosiderin, hereinabove, hereinbelow, herringbone, heteroauxin, heterogonic, hoarinesses, homogenizer, hormonelike, horninesses, horsinesses, incoherence, ionospheres, ironhearted, kinetochore, lionhearted, mesonephric, mesonephroi, metanephroi, neighboured, northerlies, overheaping, overhearing, overheating, overnighted, overnighter, overtighten, pigeonholer, prehensions, premonished, premonishes, refashioned, rehypnotize, rhinestoned, rhinestones, theobromine, theocentric, thermocline. | |
+5 letters: antiheroines, apprehension, archegoniate, chinoiseries, dechlorinate, endomorphies, endothermies, erythrosines, etherization, ethnocentric, exhibitioner, forechecking, forereaching, frothinesses, heliocentric, hemoproteins, hemosiderins, hereinbefore, herringboned, herringbones, heteroauxins, heterodyning, heterogenies, heterogonies, heteronomies, homogenizers, horribleness, horridnesses, horseshoeing, housepainter, housetrained, hypertension, incoherences, incoherently, kinetochores, motherliness, nephrologies, neurochemist, neuropathies, nitromethane, orthogenesis, orthogenetic, overnighters, overreaching, overtightens, overweighing, overwhelming, phrenologies, picturephone, pigeonholers, reenthroning, rehypnotized, rehypnotizes, renographies, reprehension, rhinoceroses, schizophrene, stereophonic, superheroine, technetronic, theatergoing, theobromines, theocentrism, theoretician, thermoclines, thermohaline, thorninesses, venographies, worthinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 72 6F 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. --- .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e r o i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0072 006F 0069 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42718481758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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