The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heroic \He*ro"ic\, a. [F. h['e]ro["i]que, L. hero["i]cus, Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
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(Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.
Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.
Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
Syn: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.
WordNet
n. poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero [syn: epic poetry]
Usage examples of "heroic poetry".
The mute songstress of these deeds was a statue of Heroic Poetry who stood upon the cupola.
He declared that although Beowulf is about monsters and a dragon, that does not make it negligible as heroic poetry.
He was piling shards of rock onto his thigh, sitting with tears running down his face, sometimes laughing, sometimes singing sad snatches of heroic poetry into the cold air.
But the ogrets heard someone declaiming heroic poetry and ran to see who it was, and I had to follow.