Heroine: alternatives and connections

A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented…

Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic ach…

A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States…

The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.

Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.

The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that whic…

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in moral…

A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brav…

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fict…

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Grea…

The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the…

the impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure"

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.