[heer-oh] 
| 1. | a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. |
| 2. | a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child. |
| 3. | the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc. |
| 4. | Classical Mythology.
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| 5. | hero sandwich. |
| 6. | the bread or roll used in making a hero sandwich. |
rōs, hrōes
[heer-oh] | 1. | Classical Mythology. a priestess of Aphrodite who drowned herself after her lover Leander drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit her. |
| 2. | Also, Heron. (Hero of Alexandria) fl. 1st century a.d., Greek scientist. |
| a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes. |
| he·ro (hîr'ō) n. pl. he·roes
[Earlier heroe, back-formation from heroes, heroes, from Latin hērōēs, pl. of hērōs, from Greek; see ser-1 in Indo-European roots.] Usage Note: Many writers now consider hero, long restricted to men in the sense "a person noted for courageous action," to be a gender-neutral term. It is used to refer to admired women as well as men in respected publications, as in this quotation from The Washington Post: "Already a national hero in her economically troubled South Korea, . . . [Se Ri] Pak is packing galleries at [golf] tournaments stateside." The word heroine is still useful, however, in referring to the principal female character of a fictional work: Jane Eyre is a well-known literary heroine. Ninety-four percent of Usage Panelists accept this usage. |
| He·ro 1 (hîr'ō) n. Greek Mythology A priestess of Aphrodite beloved by Leander. |
| He·ro 2 (hē'rō, hîr'ō) Alexandrian scientist who invented many water-driven and steam-driven machines and devised a formula for determining the area of a triangle. |
| sub·ma·rine (sŭb'mə-rēn', sŭb'mə-rēn') n.
v. sub·ma·rined, sub·ma·rin·ing, sub·ma·rines v. tr.
To slide, drive, or throw under something. The long sandwich featuring layers of meat and cheese on a crusty Italian roll or French bread goes by a variety of names. These names are not distributed in a pattern similar to that of other regional words because their use depends on the business and marketing enterprise of the people who create the sandwiches and sell them. Submarine and sub are widespread terms, not assignable to any particular region. Many of the localized terms are clustered in the northeast United States, where the greatest numbers of Italian Americans live. In Maine, it is called an Italian sandwich, befitting its heritage. Elsewhere in New England and in Sacramento, California, it is often called a grinder. New York City knows it as a hero. In the Delaware Valley, including Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, the sandwich is called a hoagie. Speakers in Miami use the name Cuban sandwich. Along the Gulf Coast the same sandwich is often called a poor boy. In New Orleans, a poor boy is likely to be offered in a version featuring fried oysters. |
hero (of the underworld)
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submarine
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