Hero

Words with a similar base: Hero, Hero_of_Alexandria, Heron

'Hero'

[hero.n.01] as in: a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

Examples:
RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain

'Hero'

[hero.n.02] as in: the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

'Hero'

[champion.n.02] as in: someone who fights for a cause

'Hero'

[hero.n.04] as in: Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

'Hero'

[hero.n.05] as in: (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

'Hero'

[hero.n.06] as in: (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

'Hero'

[bomber.n.03] as in: 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

Origins

					Hero (English)
└── Ἡρώ (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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