hero
- n a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain - n the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- n someone who fights for a cause
- n Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
- n (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
- n (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
- 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
hero of alexandria
- n Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
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
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)
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)
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)
heroic couplet
- n a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
heroic meter
- n a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
heroic stanza
- n a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab