nonhero
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[edit]nonhero (plural nonheroes)
- A character, especially a protagonist, who is not a hero.
- Synonym: unhero
- 2007 February 4, Kaiama L. Glover, “American Dream Deferred”, in New York Times[1]:
- It doesn’t matter if that’s really his name, though, because like Melville’s enlightened nonhero, this man does not expect to survive the journey.