| Noun | 1. | hero - a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others Armin, Hermann, Arminius - German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19) Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | |
| 2. | hero - the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem | |
| 3. | hero - someone who fights for a cause | |
| 4. | Hero - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) | |
| 5. | hero - (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a godclassical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Roman together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks | |
| 6. | Hero - (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her | |
| 7. | hero - 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 StatesCuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, zep, torpedo, wedge, submarine, bomber sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | |