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hero sandwich
  • n  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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herod
  • n  king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
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herod the great
  • n  king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
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herodotus
  • n  the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
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heroic couplet
  • n  a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
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heroic meter
  • n  a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
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heroic stanza
  • n  a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
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heroic verse
  • n  a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
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