heroine
女主角,女英雄,女主人公,女侠
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
- : a woman who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal: Name two women who have been heroines in your life.
- : the principal female character in a story, play, film, etc.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Raya is a gorgeous, accessible film, with engaging characters, a winning heroine, and sumptuous animation from start to finish.
Back in Nome, as the families of Maurer, Crawford and Galle clamored for an investigation into the men’s fates, Ada became something of a celebrity, hailed in the press as a heroine on par with Robinson Crusoe.
Virgil stands for empire, too, but he’s also an interesting riff on a classic gothic trope, which is for there to be a sexual attraction tinged with violence between heroine and antihero.
If the outbreak had been a movie, this would have been the scene where the heroine mobilizes an all-star squad of specialists to save the planet.
These new fiction releases are oddly compatible tales of gritty heroines on long-haul journeys in a natural world on the brink of destruction.
Even though victims groups see Haselberg as a heroine, she feels she could have done more.
Presumably, while our formerly sad animated heroine picks daisies in her garden (and it is almost always hers, not his).
The 30-something heroine glamorized the metropolis and its coveted name brands, Arora says.
The artist Mike Denison has set himself a challenge: to draw one picture a day for an entire year of his heroine Bea Arthur.
Mischievous and spirited, she was a heroine for generations of young girls who read and idolized her.
Besides, when he hears it's for that real of a kidnapping story everybody was talking about, he'll be willing enough.