- (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
- (n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
- (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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