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culture-hero

culture-hero is the alternative form of culture hero.

Meaning of culture hero

Noun

culture hero (plural culture heroes)

  1. (idiomatic) A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or achievements of a society, group, or time period.
    • A precisely similar notion was found by Avila among the Indians of Huarochiri, whose divine culture-hero imposed, by a curse or a blessing, their character and habits on the beasts.1886, Andrew Lang, chapter 6, in Myth, Ritual, and Religion

Forms of culture-hero

pluralculture-heroes

Questions about culture-hero

What is culture-hero the alternative form of?
Culture-hero is the alternative form of culture hero.

Words near culture-hero in the dictionary

  1. culture wars
  2. culture-bound
  3. culture-fair
  4. culture-god
  5. culture-gods
  6. culture-hero
  7. culture-heroes
  8. culture-historical
  9. culture-jack
  10. culture-jacked
  11. culture-jacking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: culture-hero (page history and authors); culture hero (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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