hero




hero - noun

  • a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
  • the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
  • someone who fights for a cause
  • Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
  • (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
  • (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
  • 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 - thesaurus

    bomber   champion   fighter   grinder   heron   hoagie   hoagy   paladin   sub   submarine   torpedo   wedge   zep  


    View spelling list -o words - a mixture and learn about the word hero in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 7. Long vowels e.g ee, ea or y? oa, o-e, or ow? u-e, ue, or ew?.

    Scrabble score for hero

    h is 4 e is 1 r is 1 o is 1
    Scrabble score = 7

    generated at 12:22:07 on 17-02-25

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