DICTOMETER

HÉROE (Spanish for "hero")

(hero, helt)

1. Synonyms:
   • Hero
   Definitions:
   • a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
   Examples:
   • RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Hero
   Definitions:
   • the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Champion
   • Fighter
   • Hero
   • Paladin
   Definitions:
   • someone who fights for a cause
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Hero
   • Heron
   • Hero of Alexandria
   Definitions:
   • Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Hero
   Definitions:
   • (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits
   • often the offspring of a mortal and a god
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Hero
   Definitions:
   • (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Bomber
   • Grinder
   • Hero
   • Hero sandwich
   • Hoagie
   • Hoagy
   • Cuban sandwich
   • Italian sandwich
   • Poor boy
   • Sub
   • Submarine
   • Submarine sandwich
   • Torpedo
   • Wedge
   • Zep
   Definitions:
   • 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