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Hero   /hˈɪroʊ/   Listen
Hero

noun
(pl. heroes)
1.
A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
2.
The principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem.
3.
Someone who fights for a cause.  Synonyms: champion, fighter, paladin.
4.
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).  Synonyms: Hero of Alexandria, Heron.
5.
(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god.
6.
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her.
7.
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.  Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.



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"Hero" Quotes from Famous Books



... haste to plunge into intellectual conversation to smooth over the defects of my attire." Sergey Ivanovitch, while he kept up a conversation with their hostess, had one ear for his brother, and he glanced askance at him. "What is the matter with him today? Why such a conquering hero?" he thought. He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was listening to his words and that she was glad to listen to him. And this was the only thing that interested him. Not in that room only, but in the whole ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... Dick walked off with a disagreeable laugh, but George slipped his arm through his friend's. "If I didn't know better, I should say that you were a coward, Jack," he said. "I wish you had more of the hero in you." ...
— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy
... veracious, of his doings at wine-parties; and proved, to the satisfaction of admiring freshmen, that he thought of nothing but his horse and his boating. He could do without study more than any other man could do with it; and as for that plodding Balliol hero, he might look to be beaten out of ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... all come from inside. From recognition of—of what you are, and what you've done for—for us all. You've been a hero. And you've been kind as well as brave. Antoun Effendi, I think you are a very great gentleman, and I ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... had the spirit which should be your birthright your eyes would flash with joy at the prospect of seeing a hero who could thus chase your enemies from our soil. If you could only have seen ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe


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