"folk hero" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "folk heroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "folk heroes"
      },
      "expansion": "folk hero (plural folk heroes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966 June 10, “Vocational Education: Cowhand School”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, page 571",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 August 18, Lawrence Downes, “As Woody Turns 100, We Protest Too Little”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-16",
          "text": "The American folk hero Woody Guthrie will be honored at the Kennedy Center, but rabble-rousing, not respectability, was his goal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A real or mythical person who is widely revered by ordinary people, for championing their interests, values, or aspirations."
      ],
      "id": "en-folk_hero-en-noun-KU7XgqNt",
      "links": [
        [
          "real",
          "real"
        ],
        [
          "mythical",
          "mythical"
        ],
        [
          "revere",
          "revere"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "champion",
          "champion"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "aspiration",
          "aspiration"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "culture hero"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "folk-hero"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
          "word": "بطل شعبي"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "mínzú yīngxióng",
          "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
          "word": "民族英雄"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
          "word": "kansansankari"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naródnyj gerój",
          "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "наро́дный геро́й"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "folk hero"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "folk heroes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "folk heroes"
      },
      "expansion": "folk hero (plural folk heroes)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "culture hero"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966 June 10, “Vocational Education: Cowhand School”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, page 571",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 August 18, Lawrence Downes, “As Woody Turns 100, We Protest Too Little”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-16",
          "text": "The American folk hero Woody Guthrie will be honored at the Kennedy Center, but rabble-rousing, not respectability, was his goal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A real or mythical person who is widely revered by ordinary people, for championing their interests, values, or aspirations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "real",
          "real"
        ],
        [
          "mythical",
          "mythical"
        ],
        [
          "revere",
          "revere"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "champion",
          "champion"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "aspiration",
          "aspiration"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "folk-hero"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
      "word": "بطل شعبي"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mínzú yīngxióng",
      "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
      "word": "民族英雄"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
      "word": "kansansankari"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naródnyj gerój",
      "sense": "real or mythical person widely revered by ordinary people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "наро́дный геро́й"
    }
  ],
  "word": "folk hero"
}