Definitions of hero [ˈhɪər oʊ]

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Definition of 'hero'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hero
a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

2.  hero
any person who has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.

3.  hero
the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

4.  hero
a person who is greatly admired; idol.

5.  hero
(in antiquity) an individual possessing godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.

6. (n.) Hero
a legendary priestess of Aphrodite and the lover of Leander.

Definition of 'hero'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hero
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
"RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"

2. (noun) hero
the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

3. (noun) champion, fighter, hero, paladin
someone who fights for a cause

4. (noun) Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

5. (noun) hero
(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

6. (noun) Hero
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

7. (noun) bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
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

Definition of 'hero'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) hero
sb who is admired for doing brave things
a war hero; The firefighters were treated as heroes.

2. hero
the most important male character in a book, play, movie, etc.
the hero of the movie

3. hero
sb you admire greatly
As a young writer, Dostoevsky was his hero.

Definition of 'hero'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) hero
an illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules

2. (noun) hero
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

3. (noun) hero
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

Definitions of 'hero'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1.  hero
a priestess of Venus at Sestos, in Thrace, beloved by Leander of Abydos, on the opposite shore, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit her, but was drowned one stormy evening, whereupon at sight of his dead body on the beach she threw herself into the sea.

2.  hero
a mathematician, born at Alexandria in the first half of the 2nd century; celebrated for his experiments on condensed air, and his anticipation of the pressure of steam.

3.  hero
a name given by the Greeks to human beings of such superhuman faculties as to be regarded the offspring of some god, and applied in modern times to men of an intellect and force of character of such transcendent nature as to inspire ordinary mortals with something like religious regard.

Translation of 'hero'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a man or boy admired (by many people) for his brave deeds The boy was regarded as a hero for saving his friend's life.
Afrikaans: held, heldin	Arabic: بَطَل	Bulgarian: герой
Brazilian: herói	Czech: hrdina, -ka	German: der Held
Danish: helt	Greek: ήρωας	Spanish: héroe; heroína
Estonian: kangelane	Farsi: قهرمان	Finnish: sankari
French: héros, héroïne	Hebrew: גִיבּוֹר	Hindi: वीर
Croatian: heroj, junak	Hungarian: hős	Indonesian: pahlawan
Icelandic: hetja	Italian: eroe; eroina	Japanese: 英雄
Korean: 영웅	Lithuanian: didvyris	Latvian: varonis
Malay: wira	Dutch: held	Norwegian: helt; heltinne
Polish: bohater	Persian: قهرمان	Pashto: اتل، غښتلی ، پالوان ، قهر
Portuguese: herói	Romanian: erou, eroină	Russian: герой
Slovak: hrdina, -ka	Slovenian: junak	Serbian: heroj
Swedish: hjälte, hjältinna	Thai: วีรบุรุษ	Turkish: kahraman
Taiwanese: 英雄	Ukrainian: герой	Urdu: ہیرو، محبوب
Vietnamese: anh hùng	Chinese: 英雄，偶像
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