Definition of heroic in English:

heroic

adjective hɪˈrəʊɪkhəˈroʊɪk

1Having the characteristics of a hero or heroine; admirably brave or determined.
英雄的；勇敢的
heroic deeds
英雄事迹。
heroic bomb disposal experts
Example sentencesExamples
- She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done.
- Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors.
- We're very excited with the opportunity to base a game on this time period when pilots were counted on to perform heroic and often suicidal deeds.
- Wallace was a loser - a noble, brave, heroic loser, but still ultimately unsuccessful.
- She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.
- Dear sir, we know no way to thank you for this heroic deed.
- Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
- Why the emphasis on the heroic exertion of vision and historiography?
- But in the Chinese as well as Western ideology, isn't it the heroic personality in an individual that counts?
- At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited.
- Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it?
- I'm more in favour of this kind of character, rather than characters who demonstrate a heroic resolution.
- The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners.
- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.
- They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism.
- Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life.
- Every single one of them represents a heroic defeat.
- I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God.
- He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual.
- As he repeatedly said, war is really about survival - the only heroic thing an individual can do is survive.
Synonyms
brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, intrepid, bold, daring, audacious, superhuman, Herculean, fearless, doughty, undaunted, dauntless, unafraid, plucky, indomitable, stout-hearted, lionhearted, mettlesome, venturesome, gallant, stalwart, chivalrous, noble
North American rock-ribbed
informal gutsy, spunky, ballsy, feisty
rare venturous
1. 1.1 Of or representing heroes or heroines.
  （代表）英雄的
  early medieval heroic poetry
  早期中世纪英雄诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These include native law texts as well as heroic prose narratives and intricately crafted rhymed verse in hundreds of different meters.
  Outside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare.
  This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since.
  Yukar usually refers to heroic poetry, chanted mainly by men, dealing with demigods and humans.
  The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan.
  Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing.
  It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if (as seems probable) it originated in the Mycenaean age.
  Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets.
  To communicate King's heroic story, text panels alternate with images and objects in a variety of styles and mediums.
  This portrait is no mere convention of a heroic genre.
  Yet this homage to the heroic model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one.
  The company in the royal or noble hall provided the audience for a literature which mirrored the age: heroic lays recited by professional bards.
  One feels that the specific nature of a ‘title’ is being confused with more general epithets common in heroic poetry.
  The French heroic epic is rigid, narrow and simplified, whereas medieval religious drama is redolent of the ‘everyday and the real’.
  Ranum marches the reader through examples of the heroic style in theatre, architecture, and art to show the increased anxiety over identity and status.
  Most of the stories are heroic epics where the batir and his trusty horse save the clan and its livestock from danger.
  The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.
  The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry.
  Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture.
  Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation.
2(of language or a work of art) grand or grandiose in scale or intention.
（语言或艺术品）夸张的，豪壮的；规模宏大的
one passes under pyramids and obelisks, all on a heroic scale
人走在规模宏大的金字塔和方尖石塔下面。
Example sentencesExamples
- Two towers, he said, was a minimalist sculpture on a heroic scale.
- With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power.
- But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul.
- It is a heroic piece and becomes the more so when one considers its scale in the context of the artist's physical difficulties.
- But he stood no chance - she was having an affair with Dave, one of the forklift drivers, a wild chap built on the same heroic scale, with a wife and children at home.
- The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art.
- He designed an ambitious, even heroic, building, but did not live to see it more than barely begun.
- Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives.
- Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever.
- The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic, nationalistic exposition architecture.
- The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location.
- He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music.
- The piece is heroic in its implications, and powerful in its visual component.
- Yet this serf-conscious heroic aesthetic is relieved by grace in the decor of the palaces, in the glint of sunlight on the golden spires and domes, in the delicacy of the dancers at the ballet.
- The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale.
- These two ventures, Gura suggests, are the most heroic scholarly endeavors in American cultural history of the last generation.
- They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable.
- Being aware of our own heritage makes us able to speak the same language that the Iraqis speak - the heroic language.
- The heroic scale of the Interpolis headquarters required a comparably bold landscape design.
- The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works.
Synonyms
prodigious, grand, enormous, huge, massive, titanic, colossal, monumental, stupendous
epic, Homeric
informal mega
1. 2.1Sculpture (of a statue) larger than life size but less than colossal.
  〔雕塑〕（雕像）大于真人（或实物）但不及其两倍大的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze.
  Preoccupied pedestrians amble past the heroic statue of San Martin on horseback without a glance.
  His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument.
  Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary.
  Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons.

noun hɪˈrəʊɪkhəˈroʊɪk

1Behaviour or talk that is bold or dramatic.
the England star is getting special treatment because of his World Cup heroics
Example sentencesExamples
- But time for late heroics is growing short.
- The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter.
- Suddenly, before I could perform any heroics, I was grabbed forcibly from behind.
- In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable.
- The stories of heroics performed in war zones to get the story home to breakfast tables will only sound more resounding in the weeks ahead.
- I could envision him performing the heroics described in the article.
- Other sets may highlight his humor heroics, but the majority of the material here is below average and borderline dull.
- Otua had been greatly surprised as she watched Queen Chelsea's heroics.
- Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting.
- One again there was a bumper crowd at Cougar Park with an attendance of 252 people urging the team to continue their cup heroics.
- This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display.
- Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama.
- Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness.
- Woolfolk says poise and comeback heroics are nothing new for McNair.
- Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner.
- It is an ‘ordinary’ girl, not a magic man, who performs the real heroics.
- You won't be performing such indoor heroics this time around.
- In the circumstances both matches reached a remarkably high standard with all four players performing heroics as they produced high class tennis.
- But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents.
- He captures with equal panache the drag-queenish vanity of Amalfi and the witty heroics of Count Sirocco.
2
short for heroic verse

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French heroique or Latin heroicus, from Greek hērōikos 'relating to heroes', from hērōs 'hero'.

Rhymes

echoic, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic (US Paleozoic), Stoic

Definition of heroic in US English:

heroic

adjectivehəˈrōikhəˈroʊɪk

1Having the characteristics of a hero or heroine; very brave.
英雄的；勇敢的
heroic deeds
英雄事迹。
a few heroic individuals
一些勇敢的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors.
- Wallace was a loser - a noble, brave, heroic loser, but still ultimately unsuccessful.
- At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited.
- Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
- But in the Chinese as well as Western ideology, isn't it the heroic personality in an individual that counts?
- I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God.
- Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it?
- Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life.
- He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual.
- The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners.
- We're very excited with the opportunity to base a game on this time period when pilots were counted on to perform heroic and often suicidal deeds.
- They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism.
- She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.
- Dear sir, we know no way to thank you for this heroic deed.
- Why the emphasis on the heroic exertion of vision and historiography?
- As he repeatedly said, war is really about survival - the only heroic thing an individual can do is survive.
- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.
- I'm more in favour of this kind of character, rather than characters who demonstrate a heroic resolution.
- She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done.
- Every single one of them represents a heroic defeat.
Synonyms
brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, intrepid, bold, daring, audacious, superhuman, herculean, fearless, doughty, undaunted, dauntless, unafraid, plucky, indomitable, stout-hearted, lionhearted, mettlesome, venturesome, gallant, stalwart, chivalrous, noble
1. 1.1 Of or representing heroes or heroines.
  （代表）英雄的
  early medieval heroic poetry
  早期中世纪英雄诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of the stories are heroic epics where the batir and his trusty horse save the clan and its livestock from danger.
  The company in the royal or noble hall provided the audience for a literature which mirrored the age: heroic lays recited by professional bards.
  This portrait is no mere convention of a heroic genre.
  One feels that the specific nature of a ‘title’ is being confused with more general epithets common in heroic poetry.
  This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since.
  The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan.
  Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture.
  It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if (as seems probable) it originated in the Mycenaean age.
  To communicate King's heroic story, text panels alternate with images and objects in a variety of styles and mediums.
  These include native law texts as well as heroic prose narratives and intricately crafted rhymed verse in hundreds of different meters.
  Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets.
  Yukar usually refers to heroic poetry, chanted mainly by men, dealing with demigods and humans.
  The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry.
  Ranum marches the reader through examples of the heroic style in theatre, architecture, and art to show the increased anxiety over identity and status.
  Yet this homage to the heroic model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one.
  Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation.
  Outside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare.
  The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.
  The French heroic epic is rigid, narrow and simplified, whereas medieval religious drama is redolent of the ‘everyday and the real’.
  Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing.
2. 1.2 (of language or a work of art) grand or grandiose in scale or intention.
  （语言或艺术品）夸张的，豪壮的；规模宏大的
  one passes under pyramids and obelisks, all on a heroic scale
  人走在规模宏大的金字塔和方尖石塔下面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul.
  Yet this serf-conscious heroic aesthetic is relieved by grace in the decor of the palaces, in the glint of sunlight on the golden spires and domes, in the delicacy of the dancers at the ballet.
  The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works.
  Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever.
  These two ventures, Gura suggests, are the most heroic scholarly endeavors in American cultural history of the last generation.
  He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music.
  With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power.
  But he stood no chance - she was having an affair with Dave, one of the forklift drivers, a wild chap built on the same heroic scale, with a wife and children at home.
  The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic, nationalistic exposition architecture.
  The heroic scale of the Interpolis headquarters required a comparably bold landscape design.
  The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art.
  The piece is heroic in its implications, and powerful in its visual component.
  Being aware of our own heritage makes us able to speak the same language that the Iraqis speak - the heroic language.
  The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location.
  Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives.
  The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale.
  He designed an ambitious, even heroic, building, but did not live to see it more than barely begun.
  It is a heroic piece and becomes the more so when one considers its scale in the context of the artist's physical difficulties.
  Two towers, he said, was a minimalist sculpture on a heroic scale.
  They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable.
  Synonyms
  prodigious, grand, enormous, huge, massive, titanic, colossal, monumental, stupendous
3. 1.3Sculpture (of a statue) larger than life-size but less than colossal.
  〔雕塑〕（雕像）大于真人（或实物）但不及其两倍大的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Preoccupied pedestrians amble past the heroic statue of San Martin on horseback without a glance.
  The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze.
  Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary.
  Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons.
  His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument.

nounhəˈrōikhəˈroʊɪk

1Behavior or talk that is bold or dramatic, especially excessively or unexpectedly so.
（尤指过分地或出乎意料地）大胆（或戏剧性）的行为（或言辞）
the makeshift team performed heroics
这支临时队伍哗众取宠地表现自己。
Example sentencesExamples
- He captures with equal panache the drag-queenish vanity of Amalfi and the witty heroics of Count Sirocco.
- Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting.
- You won't be performing such indoor heroics this time around.
- In the circumstances both matches reached a remarkably high standard with all four players performing heroics as they produced high class tennis.
- Otua had been greatly surprised as she watched Queen Chelsea's heroics.
- It is an ‘ordinary’ girl, not a magic man, who performs the real heroics.
- The stories of heroics performed in war zones to get the story home to breakfast tables will only sound more resounding in the weeks ahead.
- Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama.
- I could envision him performing the heroics described in the article.
- This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display.
- The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter.
- Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner.
- Suddenly, before I could perform any heroics, I was grabbed forcibly from behind.
- One again there was a bumper crowd at Cougar Park with an attendance of 252 people urging the team to continue their cup heroics.
- But time for late heroics is growing short.
- Other sets may highlight his humor heroics, but the majority of the material here is below average and borderline dull.
- Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness.
- But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents.
- In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable.
- Woolfolk says poise and comeback heroics are nothing new for McNair.
2
short for heroic verse

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French heroique or Latin heroicus, from Greek hērōikos ‘relating to heroes’, from hērōs ‘hero’.

词汇	heroic
释义	Definition of heroic in English: heroic adjective hɪˈrəʊɪkhəˈroʊɪk 1Having the characteristics of a hero or heroine; admirably brave or determined. 英雄的；勇敢的 heroic deeds 英雄事迹。 heroic bomb disposal experts Example sentencesExamples She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done. Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors. We're very excited with the opportunity to base a game on this time period when pilots were counted on to perform heroic and often suicidal deeds. Wallace was a loser - a noble, brave, heroic loser, but still ultimately unsuccessful. She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical. Dear sir, we know no way to thank you for this heroic deed. Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake. Why the emphasis on the heroic exertion of vision and historiography? But in the Chinese as well as Western ideology, isn't it the heroic personality in an individual that counts? At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited. Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it? I'm more in favour of this kind of character, rather than characters who demonstrate a heroic resolution. The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism. Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life. Every single one of them represents a heroic defeat. I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God. He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual. As he repeatedly said, war is really about survival - the only heroic thing an individual can do is survive. Synonyms brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, intrepid, bold, daring, audacious, superhuman, Herculean, fearless, doughty, undaunted, dauntless, unafraid, plucky, indomitable, stout-hearted, lionhearted, mettlesome, venturesome, gallant, stalwart, chivalrous, noble North American rock-ribbed informal gutsy, spunky, ballsy, feisty rare venturous 1.1 Of or representing heroes or heroines. （代表）英雄的 early medieval heroic poetry 早期中世纪英雄诗。 Example sentencesExamples These include native law texts as well as heroic prose narratives and intricately crafted rhymed verse in hundreds of different meters. Outside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare. This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since. Yukar usually refers to heroic poetry, chanted mainly by men, dealing with demigods and humans. The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing. It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if (as seems probable) it originated in the Mycenaean age. Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets. To communicate King's heroic story, text panels alternate with images and objects in a variety of styles and mediums. This portrait is no mere convention of a heroic genre. Yet this homage to the heroic model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one. The company in the royal or noble hall provided the audience for a literature which mirrored the age: heroic lays recited by professional bards. One feels that the specific nature of a ‘title’ is being confused with more general epithets common in heroic poetry. The French heroic epic is rigid, narrow and simplified, whereas medieval religious drama is redolent of the ‘everyday and the real’. Ranum marches the reader through examples of the heroic style in theatre, architecture, and art to show the increased anxiety over identity and status. Most of the stories are heroic epics where the batir and his trusty horse save the clan and its livestock from danger. The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states. The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry. Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture. Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation. 2(of language or a work of art) grand or grandiose in scale or intention. （语言或艺术品）夸张的，豪壮的；规模宏大的 one passes under pyramids and obelisks, all on a heroic scale 人走在规模宏大的金字塔和方尖石塔下面。 Example sentencesExamples Two towers, he said, was a minimalist sculpture on a heroic scale. With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power. But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul. It is a heroic piece and becomes the more so when one considers its scale in the context of the artist's physical difficulties. But he stood no chance - she was having an affair with Dave, one of the forklift drivers, a wild chap built on the same heroic scale, with a wife and children at home. The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art. He designed an ambitious, even heroic, building, but did not live to see it more than barely begun. Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives. Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever. The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic, nationalistic exposition architecture. The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location. He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music. The piece is heroic in its implications, and powerful in its visual component. Yet this serf-conscious heroic aesthetic is relieved by grace in the decor of the palaces, in the glint of sunlight on the golden spires and domes, in the delicacy of the dancers at the ballet. The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale. These two ventures, Gura suggests, are the most heroic scholarly endeavors in American cultural history of the last generation. They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable. Being aware of our own heritage makes us able to speak the same language that the Iraqis speak - the heroic language. The heroic scale of the Interpolis headquarters required a comparably bold landscape design. The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works. Synonyms prodigious, grand, enormous, huge, massive, titanic, colossal, monumental, stupendous epic, Homeric informal mega 2.1Sculpture (of a statue) larger than life size but less than colossal. 〔雕塑〕（雕像）大于真人（或实物）但不及其两倍大的 Example sentencesExamples The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze. Preoccupied pedestrians amble past the heroic statue of San Martin on horseback without a glance. His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument. Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary. Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons. noun hɪˈrəʊɪkhəˈroʊɪk 1Behaviour or talk that is bold or dramatic. the England star is getting special treatment because of his World Cup heroics Example sentencesExamples But time for late heroics is growing short. The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter. Suddenly, before I could perform any heroics, I was grabbed forcibly from behind. In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable. The stories of heroics performed in war zones to get the story home to breakfast tables will only sound more resounding in the weeks ahead. I could envision him performing the heroics described in the article. Other sets may highlight his humor heroics, but the majority of the material here is below average and borderline dull. Otua had been greatly surprised as she watched Queen Chelsea's heroics. Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting. One again there was a bumper crowd at Cougar Park with an attendance of 252 people urging the team to continue their cup heroics. This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display. Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama. Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness. Woolfolk says poise and comeback heroics are nothing new for McNair. Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner. It is an ‘ordinary’ girl, not a magic man, who performs the real heroics. You won't be performing such indoor heroics this time around. In the circumstances both matches reached a remarkably high standard with all four players performing heroics as they produced high class tennis. But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents. He captures with equal panache the drag-queenish vanity of Amalfi and the witty heroics of Count Sirocco. 2 short for heroic verse Origin Late Middle English: from Old French heroique or Latin heroicus, from Greek hērōikos 'relating to heroes', from hērōs 'hero'. Rhymes echoic, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic (US Paleozoic), Stoic Definition of heroic in US English: heroic adjectivehəˈrōikhəˈroʊɪk 1Having the characteristics of a hero or heroine; very brave. 英雄的；勇敢的 heroic deeds 英雄事迹。 a few heroic individuals 一些勇敢的人。 Example sentencesExamples Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors. Wallace was a loser - a noble, brave, heroic loser, but still ultimately unsuccessful. At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited. Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake. But in the Chinese as well as Western ideology, isn't it the heroic personality in an individual that counts? I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God. Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it? Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life. He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual. The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners. We're very excited with the opportunity to base a game on this time period when pilots were counted on to perform heroic and often suicidal deeds. They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism. She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical. Dear sir, we know no way to thank you for this heroic deed. Why the emphasis on the heroic exertion of vision and historiography? As he repeatedly said, war is really about survival - the only heroic thing an individual can do is survive. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. I'm more in favour of this kind of character, rather than characters who demonstrate a heroic resolution. She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done. Every single one of them represents a heroic defeat. Synonyms brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, intrepid, bold, daring, audacious, superhuman, herculean, fearless, doughty, undaunted, dauntless, unafraid, plucky, indomitable, stout-hearted, lionhearted, mettlesome, venturesome, gallant, stalwart, chivalrous, noble 1.1 Of or representing heroes or heroines. （代表）英雄的 early medieval heroic poetry 早期中世纪英雄诗。 Example sentencesExamples Most of the stories are heroic epics where the batir and his trusty horse save the clan and its livestock from danger. The company in the royal or noble hall provided the audience for a literature which mirrored the age: heroic lays recited by professional bards. This portrait is no mere convention of a heroic genre. One feels that the specific nature of a ‘title’ is being confused with more general epithets common in heroic poetry. This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since. The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture. It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if (as seems probable) it originated in the Mycenaean age. To communicate King's heroic story, text panels alternate with images and objects in a variety of styles and mediums. These include native law texts as well as heroic prose narratives and intricately crafted rhymed verse in hundreds of different meters. Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets. Yukar usually refers to heroic poetry, chanted mainly by men, dealing with demigods and humans. The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry. Ranum marches the reader through examples of the heroic style in theatre, architecture, and art to show the increased anxiety over identity and status. Yet this homage to the heroic model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one. Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation. Outside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare. The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states. The French heroic epic is rigid, narrow and simplified, whereas medieval religious drama is redolent of the ‘everyday and the real’. Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing. 1.2 (of language or a work of art) grand or grandiose in scale or intention. （语言或艺术品）夸张的，豪壮的；规模宏大的 one passes under pyramids and obelisks, all on a heroic scale 人走在规模宏大的金字塔和方尖石塔下面。 Example sentencesExamples But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul. Yet this serf-conscious heroic aesthetic is relieved by grace in the decor of the palaces, in the glint of sunlight on the golden spires and domes, in the delicacy of the dancers at the ballet. The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works. Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever. These two ventures, Gura suggests, are the most heroic scholarly endeavors in American cultural history of the last generation. He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music. With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power. But he stood no chance - she was having an affair with Dave, one of the forklift drivers, a wild chap built on the same heroic scale, with a wife and children at home. The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic, nationalistic exposition architecture. The heroic scale of the Interpolis headquarters required a comparably bold landscape design. The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art. The piece is heroic in its implications, and powerful in its visual component. Being aware of our own heritage makes us able to speak the same language that the Iraqis speak - the heroic language. The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location. Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives. The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale. He designed an ambitious, even heroic, building, but did not live to see it more than barely begun. It is a heroic piece and becomes the more so when one considers its scale in the context of the artist's physical difficulties. Two towers, he said, was a minimalist sculpture on a heroic scale. They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable. Synonyms prodigious, grand, enormous, huge, massive, titanic, colossal, monumental, stupendous 1.3Sculpture (of a statue) larger than life-size but less than colossal. 〔雕塑〕（雕像）大于真人（或实物）但不及其两倍大的 Example sentencesExamples Preoccupied pedestrians amble past the heroic statue of San Martin on horseback without a glance. The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze. Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary. Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons. His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument. nounhəˈrōikhəˈroʊɪk 1Behavior or talk that is bold or dramatic, especially excessively or unexpectedly so. （尤指过分地或出乎意料地）大胆（或戏剧性）的行为（或言辞） the makeshift team performed heroics 这支临时队伍哗众取宠地表现自己。 Example sentencesExamples He captures with equal panache the drag-queenish vanity of Amalfi and the witty heroics of Count Sirocco. Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting. You won't be performing such indoor heroics this time around. In the circumstances both matches reached a remarkably high standard with all four players performing heroics as they produced high class tennis. Otua had been greatly surprised as she watched Queen Chelsea's heroics. It is an ‘ordinary’ girl, not a magic man, who performs the real heroics. The stories of heroics performed in war zones to get the story home to breakfast tables will only sound more resounding in the weeks ahead. Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama. I could envision him performing the heroics described in the article. This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display. The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter. Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner. Suddenly, before I could perform any heroics, I was grabbed forcibly from behind. One again there was a bumper crowd at Cougar Park with an attendance of 252 people urging the team to continue their cup heroics. But time for late heroics is growing short. Other sets may highlight his humor heroics, but the majority of the material here is below average and borderline dull. Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness. But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents. In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable. Woolfolk says poise and comeback heroics are nothing new for McNair. 2 short for heroic verse Origin Late Middle English: from Old French heroique or Latin heroicus, from Greek hērōikos ‘relating to heroes’, from hērōs ‘hero’.
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