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heroic
Adjective
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If something you do is heroic is like something a hero would do; it is very brave or difficult to do.
To win while wounded was truly heroic.
Though his efforts were heroic, his failure could not be avoided.
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If you are heroic you are a hero or like a hero; you do heroic things.
The soldiers who fought in World War II were heroic men.
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If story or poem is heroic, it is about a hero or heroes doing great things.
"Beowulf" is the best known heroic epic of early British literature.
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If a society is heroic it is at a stage where stories of great heroes are common and wars are won by single heroic warriors. This is often a society with tribes or technology is bronze age or iron age.
Comparisons have been made between the heroic societies of ancient Greece and modern heroic societies such as the Zulu.
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A heroic age is a time when great heroes were said to have lived. This is often early in history.
Homer's heroic age was hundreds of years before Homer live, around 1000 B.C.E.
metre
Noun
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One metre is a length. It is exactly 100 centimetres long.
This table is 2 metres wide.