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her⋅on

  [her-uhn]
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–noun
any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME heiro(u)n, hero(u)n < MF hairon (F héron) < Gmc; cf. OHG heigir
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He⋅ron

  [heer-on]
–noun
Hero (def. 2).

He⋅ro

  [heer-oh]
–noun
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.
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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.
her·on   (hěr'ən)   
n.  Any of various wading birds of the family Ardeidae, having a long neck, long legs, a long pointed bill, and usually white, gray, or bluish-gray plumage.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
He·ron   (hē'rŏn')   
See Hero2.
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Slang Dictionary
hero (of the underworld)

  1. 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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Word Origin & History

hero 
1387, "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 in a play, story, etc." first recorded 1697. Fem. form heroine first attested 1659, from L. heroina, from Gk. heroine. First record of hero-worship is from 1774. Heroic verse (1617), 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.

heron 
c.1120s, from O.Fr. hairon, from Frank. *haigiro (cf. O.H.G. heigaro "heron"), from P.Gmc. *khraigran-, from PIE *qriq-, perhaps imitative of its cry (cf. O.C.S. kriku "cry, scream," Lith. kryksti "to shriek"). O.E. cognate hraga did not survive into M.E.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.
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Bible Dictionary

Heron

(Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18), ranked among the unclean birds. The Hebrew name is _'anaphah_, and indicates that the bird so named is remarkable for its angry disposition. "The herons are wading-birds, peculiarly irritable, remarkable for their voracity, frequenting marshes and oozy rivers, and spread over the regions of the East." The Ardea russeta, or little golden egret, is the commonest species in Asia.

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