heroics
(noun) ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct; “heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
heroics pl (plural only)
The actions of a hero.
(US, medicine) Emergency intervention to save a patient's life.
(dated) Extravagant phrases; bombast.
heroics
plural of heroic
• coheirs, hircose, sheroic
Source: Wiktionary
He*ro"ic, a. Etym: [F. héroïque, L. heroïcus, Gr.
1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
2. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
3. (Sculpture & Painting)
Definition: Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure. Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
– Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.
– Heroic treatment or remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.
– Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
Syn.
– Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
