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- English Word Hero Definition An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
- English Word Hero Definition A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
- English Word Hero Definition The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
- English Word Herodian Definition One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.
- English Word Herodiones Definition A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii.
- English Word Heroes Definition of Hero
- English Word Heroess Definition A heroine.
- English Word Heroic Definition Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
- English Word Heroic Definition Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
- English Word Heroic Definition Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
- English Word Heroical Definition Heroic.
- English Word Heroicness Definition Heroism.
- English Word Heroicomic Definition Alt. of Heroicomical
- English Word Heroicomical Definition Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
- English Word Heroine Definition A woman of an heroic spirit.
- English Word Heroine Definition The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.
- English Word Heroism Definition The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
- English Word Heron Definition Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
- English Word Heroner Definition A hawk used in hunting the heron.
- English Word Heronry Definition A place where herons breed.