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hero
has definitions from the fields of theater,food,classical mythology,Greek mythology,mathematics,Greek antiquity
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[ noun ] a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
Examples "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain" Used in print (The New York Times,...)Shea , the chairman of Mayor_Wagner_'s_Baseball_Committee , will be joined on the dais by Warren_Spahn , the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee_Braves ; Frank_Graham , the Journal-American sports columnist ; Bill_Mazeroski , the World_Series hero of the Pittsburgh_Pirates , and Casey_Stengel , the former manager of the Yankees . Their secondary hero is another pro , Willie_Chisholm , who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock strewn gully . But after that 12 at Los_Angeles he became one_of_the_boys , a bigger hero than he ever had been before . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Such identification comes for each group in each crisis by rewriting history into legend and developing appropriate national heroes . But we must never forget , most_of the appropriate heroes and their legends were created overnight , to answer immediate needs , almost always with conscious aims and ends . |
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[ noun ] (theater) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
Used in print (The Providence Journal...)This is when his troubles begin , not_to_mention a fledgling artist who he hires , and who turns_out to have ideas of his own , with particular respect_to the hero 's sweetheart secretary . For the hero of this work by John_Osborne and Anthony_Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam_session . Since the hero , a sterling and upright fellow , is a rich Brown senior , while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists , I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where_the_Boys_are '' , but I shall do nothing of the sort . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Love is the crucial dilemma of experience for Mann 's heroes . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon_Bonaparte '' , said Claire , with slightly overdone carelessness . Related terms |
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[ noun ] someone who fights for a cause
Used in print (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)In the cow camps , Tom_Horn was regarded_as a hero , as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (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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[ noun ] (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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[ noun ] (mathematics,Greek antiquity) 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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[ noun ] (food) 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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