folk hero
See also: folk-hero
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]folk hero (plural folk heroes)
- A real or mythical person who is widely revered by ordinary people, for championing their interests, values, or aspirations.
- 1966 June 10, “Vocational Education: Cowhand School”, in Time[1]:
- That hallowed American folk hero, the lean cowboy with six-gun at hip, swinging smoothly into the saddle—somehow he never had to go to school to learn that stuff.
- 1996, Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, →ISBN, page 571:
- Deuladeu Martins is a woman folk-hero dating from the 12th century; she is thought of as a hugely tall and strong woman whose actions were so feared by invaders that, because of her, the country of Portugal itself came into being.
- 2012 August 18, Lawrence Downes, “As Woody Turns 100, We Protest Too Little”, in New York Times[2], retrieved 2013-04-16:
- The American folk hero Woody Guthrie will be honored at the Kennedy Center, but rabble-rousing, not respectability, was his goal.
Translations
[edit]real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people
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