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heroine (n.)
1650s, from Latin
heroine
,
heroina
(plural
heroinae
) "a female hero, a demigoddess" (such as Medea), from Greek
heroine
, fem. of
heros
(see
hero
(n.1)). As "principal female character" in a drama or poem, from 1715.