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hero

English

  1. 🔊 the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
  2. 🔊 (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
  3. 🔊 (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits
  4. 🔊 a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
    “RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain”
  5. 🔊 Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
  6. 🔊 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)
  7. 🔊 someone who fights for a cause

Spanish

  1. 🔊 héroe hero

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