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Heroes vs Heroine - What's the difference?

heroes | heroine |

As nouns the difference between heroes and heroine

is that heroes is while heroine is heroin.

heroes

English

Noun

(head)
  • ----

    heroine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female hero.
  • A female lead character.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}

    Synonyms

    *shero

    Hypernyms

    *hero

    Derived terms

    *superheroine

    Usage notes

    In the sense 1, it is more common to say hero today. * She is an American hero .