hero
Nouns
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(n) a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
- RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain
- (n) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- (n) someone who fights for a cause paladin, champion, fighter,
- (n) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) Heron, Hero of Alexandria,
- (n) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
- (n) (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
- (n) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, zep, submarine, torpedo, wedge, bomber,
Synonyms
paladin champion fighter Heron Hero of Alexandria Cuban sandwich grinder hero sandwich hoagie hoagy Italian sandwich poor boy sub submarine sandwich zep submarine torpedo wedge bomberWords of close approximity
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Herod
Herodotus
Herod the Great
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Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza
heroic couplet
heroic meter
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heroic stanza
heroic tale
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heroin addict
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Hero of Alexandria
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hero-worship
hero worshiper
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