Definition of hero

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Hero (n.) 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..

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Traitorous :: Traitorous (a.) Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject..
Atheroid :: Atheroid (a.) Shaped like an ear of grain.
Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..
Spherometer :: Spherometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc..
Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.
Synanthesis :: Synantherous (a.) Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers..
Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife..
Unfaithful :: Unfaithful (a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant..
Traitorly :: Traitorly (a.) Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
Altitude :: Altitude (n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses..
Merenchyma :: Merenchyma (n.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great..
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod..
Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
Aeneid :: Aeneid (n.) The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas..
Whoremasterly :: Whoremasterly (a.) Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.
Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
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