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Meaning hero meaning

What does hero mean?
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hero

Your hero is a person you greatly admire. This may also be someone you want to be similar to. Leonardo DaVinci used to be my hero. Your hero is someone who saves or defends you. "Oh, my hero!" she said to her rescuer. A hero is the main character in a story or film (movie). A female hero is a heroine. Short for hero sandwich. A good person with special powers; a superhero.

hero

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem (= champion) someone who fights for a cause (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god (= bomber) 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

Hero

(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

Synonyms hero synonyms

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Heron Hero of Alexandria

Topics hero topics

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Simple sentences

I'm a hero.
Clark Kent is the hero of the Superman stories.
Tom is a hero.
Tom was my hero.
Tom is Mary's hero.
There's no sense acting all triumphant like a conquering hero over such a minor thing.
His victory made him a hero.
The hero of the book rails at the injustices of the world but does nothing about them.
Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.
We regard him as our hero.
I don't like a novel without a hero.
He believes that he is a hero.
They set up a bronze statue of the hero.
They regarded him as a national hero.
Every little boy needs a hero.
He believes himself to be a hero.
Ulysses Grant was a hero.
He is an unsung hero.
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
The play concludes with the hero's death.
Every man cannot be a hero.
The hero died at the end of the book.
The victory made him a hero.
He was regarded as a hero.

Movie subtitles

And that explains why Zheng He, the personification of early Chinese expansionism, for so long forgotten, is a hero in today's newly gIobaIised China.
Do you think Frodo was really the hero of The Lord of the Rings?
Time to be a hero and slay the monster!
Except for Caitlyn, who is a national hero.
I painted her as a feminist hero.
You may have heard of the legendary Leclerc, hero of World War II.
Now go and get some rest, hero.
Nobody will come out of this a hero.
Spare my life, O hero, and I will make you the richest king on earth!
Siegfried, the unique hero, has come to Worms at an opportune moment.
It is Siegfried the mighty hero who will win Brunhilde for you.
Welcome, hero, for the fight for life or death!
If Kriemhild gives her consent, o hero, we shall celebrate a double wedding here today.
Your babbling, hero, was worse than murder!
You'll become a hero to the colony!
Children, did you know your father is a hero?
Why are you a hero, Father?
Don't be a hero, it's best you flee.
So, the play is a love triangle between Hero and his boyfriend, Coma Boy, who's in a coma, and Hope, some girl he meets online?
I realized that Hero and Coma Boy's love is no different than anyone else's. Neither is yours.
He returns a national hero.
Are you going to marry the national hero?
I think it's good for a queen to marry a hero.
He is a hero.
He is a hero at fighting, and fighting bores me.
After our hero had killed Wynant, he had a brilliant idea.
So our hero wrote letters to MacCaulay, signing Wynant's name. so that MacCaulay would continue to send the money to Julia.
And our hero got terrified.
My Hero; Father wants me to marry Count Chlorure de Lime.
That's right. The sergeant. a real man, a hero.
YOU'LL BE A PUBLIC HERO.
Who is the handsome hero Some villain always frames?
I'm a hero, Nicolas.
They take me for a hero!
Our hero had paid Nunheim once to keep his mouth shut.
But our hero had just one weak link in his chain.
So our hero picked on poor Mimi here to strengthen his case.
When you play the hero of Konjiki, I'll lend you my cap.

News and current affairs

That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.
Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.
The hero of this effort, Dr. Paulo Teixera, is now at the World Health Organization helping to lead the global effort against AIDS.
He is perhaps the unsung hero of the entire debacle.
I wanted to be a hero, too, so I studied hard and enrolled in medical school.
It is now four centuries since the birth of a masterpiece whose author and hero both seem younger than we do.
More than a century ago, the Korean activist Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Japan's first prime minister, Hirobumi Ito, at the railway station in the Chinese city of Harbin, cementing Ahn's status as a hero in Korea and a terrorist in Japan.
He toured Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya in September 2011 and received a hero's welcome.
Zhang, who appeared in this year's Oscar-nominated film Hero, refused to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood in protest.
For hard-line Communists, he was a hero three times over - historical, patriotic, and world-class.
But to be effective in the cause of heroism, the hero must die promptly.
Maradona, however, is no tragic hero.
He is a hero of happiness.
Instead, photographers stake out his hospital room, seeking to show us our hero in his struggle with death.
For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a contemporary hero.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
India's nationalist leader and first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a close friend of the Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, whose daughter, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, studied in New Delhi.
But if Dr. Jiang became a hero in the process, he was also marked as insubordinate, the kind of potentially uncontrollable person that the Chinese Communist Party fears.
But, unlike McCain, a good man and a true American hero, I don't intend to vote Republican this November.
It is a bitter irony that John McCain, the war hero, is considered a traitor by the conservative wing of his party because he has a compassionate attitude towards undocumented immigrants.
Yam remains a hero to many in Hong Kong, including journalists unschooled in international finance.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
Mandela had long been my personal hero, from my student days in the 1960's, when - like so many others of my generation - I was an anti-apartheid activist.

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