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# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[heroine]]; a [[female]] [[hero]].
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[heroine]]; a [[female]] [[hero]].
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{{Webster 1913}}
{{Webster 1913}}

Revision as of 22:53, 30 December 2020

Englisch

Etymology

hero +‎ -ess

Nomen

heroess (plural heroesses)

  1. (obsolete) A heroine; a female hero.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for heroess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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