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sheroic

sheroic adjective: heroic in a female or feminist context.

Adjective

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

  1. Heroic in a female or feminist context.
    • The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors...
    • This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84

Forms of sheroic

comparativemore sheroic
superlativemost sheroic

Origin of sheroic

Blend of she + heroic.

Questions about sheroic

What does sheroic mean?
Sheroic means heroic in a female or feminist context.
What part of speech is sheroic?
Sheroic is an adjective.

Words near sheroic in the dictionary

  1. Sherod
  2. Sherods
  3. sheroes
  4. sheroff
  5. sheroffs
  6. sheroic
  7. sheroot
  8. sheroots
  9. Sherover
  10. sherpa
  11. sherpaed

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