ur-hero

noun

An original or mythological hero.

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Meanings

nounur-hero (plural ur-heroes)

plural ur-heroes

  1. An original or mythological hero.

    It has all been foretold, forelived, Tridib being, so to speak, the novel's ur-imagination, ur-hero, ur-narrator.

    1992, Mohan Lal, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot - Page 3936
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    The hero myths we have, those available to us for comparison, are primarily from strongly patriarchal societies, and it is to the patriarchal ur-hero that emerges from these myths [...]

    2005, David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - Page 181

Origin

From ur- + hero.

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