She's a prototypical heroine of her day because her life had to revolve around her relationships and her family.
Each time his heroine gets near her prey, he eludes her at the last moment.
Even the heroine of my novel was slated to go there after her college days ended.
True to the novel, our heroine is dead from the outset.
The heroine is a post-office worker processing registered mail.
But offscreen she did not see herself as a tragic heroine.
It was the suffragists, on the lookout for a folk heroine, who rediscovered her.
Scientific studies suggest that nicotine addiction may be more powerful than heroine addiction.
Nothing in her relation to the kitchen offers the slightest hint that she has learned anything at all from her heroine.
The second part of the poem, connected rather loosely with the first, is a praise of the heroine in the typical manner.
British Dictionary definitions for heroine
heroine
/ˈhɛrəʊɪn/
noun
1.
a woman possessing heroic qualities
2.
a woman idealized for possessing superior qualities
3.
the main female character in a novel, play, film, etc
Word Origin and History for heroine
n.
1650s, from Latin heroine, heroina (plural heroinae) "a female hero, a demigoddess" (e.g. Medea), from Greek heroine, fem. of heros (see hero (n.1)). As "principal female character" in a drama or poem, from 1715.