a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
<noun.person> RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain
the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
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someone who fights for a cause
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Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
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(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
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(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
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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
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Hero \He"ro\, n.; pl. {Heroes}. [F. h['e]ros, L. heros, Gr. ?.] 1. (Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. --Emerson.
3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and [AE]neas in the [AE]neid.
The shining quality of an epic hero. --Dryden.
{Hero worship}, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes. ※ 1
Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. --Carlyle.
Sub \Sub\, n. 1. A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]
2. a shortened form of {submarine}, the boat. [PJC]
3. a shortened form of {submarine sandwich}; also called {hero}, {hero sandwich}, and {grinder}. [PJC]
submarine sandwich \sub`ma*rine" sand"wich\, n. A large sandwich on an elongated roll, usually incompletely cut into two halves, filed with various cold cuts, meatballs, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, olives, etc., and spiced variously, and often having oil or other dressing applied; called also {hoagie}, {hero}, {hero sandwich}, {grinder}, {sub}, {submarine}, {poor boy}, and {Italian sandwich}. A single such sandwich may consitute a substantial meal. Very large variants are sometimes prepared for social gatherings and cut into pieces for individual consumption. [PJC]
hoagie \hoagie\, hoagy \hoagy\n. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is 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 U. S., such as {hero}, {grinder}, and {submarine}.
If Bellamy had only known, his hero would have been mystified not only by organ music but also by cavernous echoes that seemed to issue from 100 yards behind his sofa.
Its main concern is Thurmond Stottle, a one-time high school football hero in the tiny town of Stanley, Texas.
Also today, a legislator who died during relief efforts following the deadly June 21 quake in northernwestern Iran was given a hero's burial.
At the center of this debate is Father Carroll, 50, a baby-faced priest and unlikely hero for the homeless.
I told artist Jack Kirby, `Let's make a hero out of a monster." Lee, who joined Marvel Comics when he was 16, said, "Superheroes aren't a tough sell.
In reality, it has not advanced much in the past 16 years. All over Africa you will find boulevards, squares and even churches re-named after Roger Milla, the continent's hero of 1990.
Mr. Hansen also mentions John Mulheren, who he says managed to become a hero in the eyes of some for his "pistol-packing attempt to silence a witness."
Others hailed Goetz as a hero who resisted a robbery.
International labor hero Walesa still retains a host of folksy touches nearly nine years after strikes at the Lenin Shipyard that spawned Solidarity catapulted him to fame and a Nobel Peace prize.
As an action hero he's pretty goofy, but he does walk through broken glass barefoot, which should attract the Rambo fans.
A trial may force the disclosure of details about the power struggle that preceded the army attack and could turn Zhao into a popular hero.
Was it because he didn't pay his taxes or because he wolf-whistled a noble lady; either thesis is possible.' No use arguing with Jose that Don Quixote never existed, and that the man imprisoned in Argamasilla was Miguel Cervantes, his hero's inventor.
"When you play in this game, you're either a hero or a bum, and it's a very tough game," says Dudley Eppel, head of block trading at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.
"The Ivory Trade" continues the story, beginning with Mr. Cliburn's stunning 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition victory in Moscow, which made the lanky American a national hero overnight.
Some North Carolinians voted for Helms as a folk hero, others voted against him as an embarrassment.
He's a soft-spoken, sensitive-looking war hero who quotes Yeats and dates actress Debra Winger, raises money by the bushel and has a 75 percent-plus approval rating in a conservative Republican state.
Last year, Bush called North a "national hero" but later refined that to say he was alluding to North's record of heroism in military combat.
Not even the balm of syrupy romance was on offer. Painted Heart is at least restful, if you forget the moment the hero cuts his forearm to prove his love.
He said he did not want to take revenge against police or the banks; he did not want to be a national hero, but needed the money because of his debts," Tel Aviv police spokeswoman Dalia Gilad said Sunday.
Castro is a hero," said Pereira, who came for the reunion from his home in New York. "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be here now." Said Castro, "I really don't feel like a hero.
Castro is a hero," said Pereira, who came for the reunion from his home in New York. "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be here now." Said Castro, "I really don't feel like a hero.
"Midnight Caller" stars Gary Cole ("Fatal Vision") as a mouthy, troubled ex-cop who is persuaded by a radio station owner to take on a late-night radio call-in show and becomes a cult hero. The show is set in San Francisco.
"I'm perhaps a hero in fiction, but he's a hero in reality," Stallone said of Anthony.
"I'm perhaps a hero in fiction, but he's a hero in reality," Stallone said of Anthony.
"Most Americans feel a kind of moral leadership vacuum. Everybody's hero is dead.
In a 1946 prologue, we find little Maggie already attached to young Pat Casey, and figuring in a Christmas pageant which is interrupted by the death of Pat's father, a union hero, amid an angry strike.
A young man who helped authorities capture a gunman who held 20 people hostage inside a McDonald's restaurant said Tuesday he was a reluctant hero.
"Too much of that hero stuff, Mighty Mouse," says the doctor.
Ms. True said a painstaking study of the marble head by scientists and art experts had answered many of the questions surrounding the head of Achilles, a mythological hero slain by an arrow to his heel.
Here was the library where his hero had studied his books of chivalry.