Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as heroic valor.

Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as heroic action; heroic enterprises.

Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race.

Productive of heroes; as a heroic line in pedigree.

Reciting the achievements of heroes; as a heroic poem.

Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as heroic verse; a heroic foot. Heroic age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.