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culture hero (plural culture heroes)
- (idiomatic) A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or achievements of a society, group, or time period.
- 1886, Andrew Lang, chapter 6, in Myth, Ritual, and Religion:
- A precisely similar notion was found by Avila among the Indians of Huarochiri, whose divine culture-hero imposed, by a curse or a blessing, their character and habits on the beasts.
- 1970 March 23, “Business: America the Inefficient”, in Time:
- [T]he U.S. has long been the Land of Efficiency. . . . Here mass production was born, the assembly line for good or ill became the modern cornucopia, and Henry Ford once reigned as the leading culture hero.
- 2006 October 1, Edward Kosner, “First Chapter: It’s News to Me”, in New York Times, retrieved 4 June 2013:
- [T]hese were mostly Russian intellectuals, hard-core Stalinists, and democratic socialists . . . whose book-lined apartments were filled with leftist tracts and records by the Red Army Chorus and the black American Communist culture hero Paul Robeson.
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person renowned as the exemplar of the values of a society
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- “culture hero”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.