noun
the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑fictional character, ↑fictitious character, ↑character
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Beowulf [Beowulf]
a long poem in ↑Old English, probably written in the 8th century. It tells how the ↑hero Beowulf kills two ↑monsters and finally dies killing a third. It was the first major European poem that was not written in Latin or Greek.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.