"action hero" meaning in English

See action hero in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: action heroes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|action heroes}} action hero (plural action heroes)
  1. The hero of a work of fiction containing action, whose heroism typically includes participation in that action. Categories (topical): Stock characters
    Sense id: en-action_hero-en-noun-r-ckcbM4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for action hero meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "action heroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "action heroes"
      },
      "expansion": "action hero (plural action heroes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Stock characters",
          "orig": "en:Stock characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fictional characters",
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hero of a work of fiction containing action, whose heroism typically includes participation in that action."
      ],
      "id": "en-action_hero-en-noun-r-ckcbM4",
      "links": [
        [
          "hero",
          "hero"
        ],
        [
          "work of fiction",
          "work of fiction"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "action hero"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "action heroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "action heroes"
      },
      "expansion": "action hero (plural action heroes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Stock characters"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hero of a work of fiction containing action, whose heroism typically includes participation in that action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hero",
          "hero"
        ],
        [
          "work of fiction",
          "work of fiction"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "action hero"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.