HERO'IC, adjective Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as heroic valor. 1. Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as heroic action; heroic enterprises. 2. Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race. 3. Productive of heroes; as a heroic line in pedigree. 4. Reciting the achievements of heroes; as a heroic poem. 5. Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as heroic verse; a heroic foot. Heroic age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI