HEROINE Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

heroine

noun

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as in hero

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Recent Examples of heroine On top of doggedly tracking a serial killer whose murder spree started decades earlier, our shrewd heroine uncovers a tangled workplace conspiracy that's as sinister as her prime suspect's motives. —

Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026 In the show, the heroine shares nightmarish tales alongside Herneval, who appears not as a prince but a sentient book. —

Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 This is the only kind of heroine who can properly lead this kind of alien invasion thriller. —

Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 June 2026 Repetition propels us towards one night in November of 1975 when everything changes, but not in the way the heroine (or the reader) was led to expect. —

Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for heroine

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hero

Noun

As the inscription had been damaged, researchers couldn’t decipher whether this tablet had cursed four slaves or whether four slaves had cried out to the Egyptian gods and demi-heroes, who knows?

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
The kingdom and its press and thus the world could see the war hero and his monarch inextricably bound by allegiance to Britain.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026