heroine

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

hero·ine [heroine heroines] BrE [ˈherəʊɪn] NAmE [ˈheroʊɪn] noun
1. a girl or woman who is admired by many for doing sth brave or good
•the heroines of the revolution
2. the main female character in a story, novel, film/movie, etc
•The heroine is played by Demi Moore.
•Shakespeare's heroines
3. a woman that you admire because of a particular quality or skill that she has
•Madonna was her teenage heroine.

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘demigoddess, venerated woman’): from French héroïne or Latin heroina, from Greek hērōinē, feminine of hērōs ‘hero’.

Example Bank:
•Jane Eyre, the eponymous heroine of the novel by Charlotte Brontë
•She remains one of the unsung heroines of the Second World War.
•She was thrilled to be interviewing her childhood heroine.
•Violetta is one of the great tragic heroines of Verdi's operas.
•She has played several of Shakespeare's heroines— Portia and Juliet among them.
•She is widely regarded as one of the heroines of the revolution.
•The story is narrated entirely by the heroine.