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heroes

[heer-oh]

noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.

a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

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.

the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

Classical Mythology.

a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.

(in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability.

(in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod.

hero sandwich.

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the bread or roll used in making a hero sandwich.

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Origin:
1605–15; back formation from Middle English heroes (plural) < Latin hērōs (singular), hērōes (plural) < Greek hḗrōs, hḗrōes

Related forms

he·ro·like, adjective

sub·he·ro, noun, plural -roes.

un·he·ro, noun, plural -roes.

un·he·ro·like, adjective

Synonyms
3. lead, star.

Antonyms
3. villain, heavy.

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Example Sentences

The days of dramatic gestures by boy heroes are long over.

Read a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations.

The press didn't make your heroes into rapists and enablers.

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The days of dramatic gestures by boy heroes are long over.

Read a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations.

The press didn't make your heroes into rapists and enablers.

Indonesia promptly declared the five fallen countrymen to be heroes who had died in the course of duty.

Heroes was the prime-time superhero show that got all the buzz, and ultimately all the disappointment.

Wartime heroes are never good peacetime heroes and so the saying goes.

Louis nearly two and a half years after their journey began and are acclaimed as national heroes.

Three new books reveal how much heroes and even distant acquaintances influence us.

The comics superpower is giving all of its heroes a fresh start.

Red-shirt activists want justice for their fallen heroes.

Comic-book super heroes always sense when there is trouble afoot, and swoop in to save the day.

It is incredibly difficult to create fictional scientists who are neither insane villains nor cardboard heroes.

We don't really get the same as the sports heroes or movie stars it has to said.

If the two heroes of economics coming from different angles of the discipline agree, their common view cannot be false.

Look at how these environmental heroes live and you will find false prophets.

And while it may have been the first time they've fought together, as heroes they come to the aid of those in need.

I'll leave it to readers and sports fans to determine how much lawlessness among sports heroes is too much.

The heroes were honed over many years by other writers and artists.

See exhibits highlighting the state's military history, decorative arts, sports heroes and more.

B&W photographs show the sport's heroes through the years, and an exhibit on board.

Of course, the two blond, blue-eyed heroes also are responsible for every technological invention of the neolithic.

Alternative-fuel-advocating heroes will show down with big-oil villains as the movie hits theaters today.

Most heroes are more effective when they're social heroes rather than isolated heroes.

The people who liberated this public information are heroes.

But there are also unsung heroes in the south and east.

And it was an obsession with comic book heroes that led me into science and into.

We follow the careers of two heroes and two villains.

We could say that they're soldiers, but soldiers killed in action are revered as heroes by our culture and many others.

The few decent cops among them are seen as mould-breaking heroes and dissidents.

Many of these heroes are volunteers, who receive no compensation for their efforts.

Some mornings you wake up and realize your sci-fi heroes might have lost the plot.

We don't remember heroes for their successes but for their tragic demises fighting for an often forgotten truth.

The first shoppers to emerge victorious were cheered as heroes and brandished their trophies for the cameras.

The real heroes are those people who aren't trained for a particular task but do something extraordinary by instinct.

No matter what period you live in, monsters, heroes and captured maidens make for good entertainment.

The real heroes of that high-octane age were the wheels.

Some heroes and gods are said to have transformed themselves into the ancestors of men, bears, and other living things.

In the end, a giant tidal wave wipes away the coastal village but delivers our heroes to a mountaintop to observe a lunar eclipse.

There have been so many heroes and heroines in the comics who are, in essence, makers or hackers or builders of awesome gadgets.

Perhaps he was, but with peace wartime heroes became less important.

The calm determination of our heroes and the hypnotic clicking of their tricycles contrasted with the din of the thundering city.

Perhaps a follow-up, about those heroes whose story remains untold.

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Word Origin & History

hero

late 14c., "man of superhuman strength or courage," from L. heros "hero," from Gk. heros "demi-god" (a variant singular of which was heroe), originally "defender, protector," from PIE base *ser- "to watch over, protect" (cf. L. servare "to save, deliver, preserve, protect"). Sense of "chief male character

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in a play, story, etc." first recorded 1697. Fem. form heroine first attested 1650s, from L. heroina, from Gk. heroine. First record of hero-worship is from 1774. Heroic verse (1610s), decasyllabic iambic, is from It. Hero, the New York term for a sandwich elsewhere called submarine, grinder, poor boy (New Orleans), or hoagie (Philadelphia), is 1955, origin unknown, perhaps folk etymology of Gk. gyro, a type of sandwich.

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Science Dictionary

Hero (hē'rō) Pronunciation Key
Greek mathematician who wrote on mechanics and invented many water-driven and steam-driven machines. He also developed a formula for determining the area of a triangle.

Slang Dictionary

hero (of the underworld) definition

n.
heroin. : Don says he knows the hero of the underworld well.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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