Ur-hero

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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

Etymology

From ur- + hero.

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