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HE'RO, n. [L. heros; Gr. a demigod.] 1. A man of distinguished valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger; as a hero in arms.2. A great, illustrious or extraordinary person; as a hero in learning. [Little used.]3. In a poem, or romance, the principal personage, 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.4. In pagan mythology, a hero was an illustrious person, mortal indeed, but supposed by the populace to partake of immortality, and after his death to be placed among the gods. |
HERO'DIANS, n. A sect among the Jews,which took this name from Herod; but authors are not agreed as to their peculiar notions. |
HEROI-COM'IC, a. [See Hero and Comic.] Consisting of the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting the high burlesque; as a heroicomic poem. |
HERO'IC, a. Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as heroic valor. 1. Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as heroic action; heroic enterprises.2. Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race.3. Productive of heroes; as a heroic line in pedigree.4. Reciting the achievements of heroes; as a heroic poem.5. Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as heroic verse; a heroic foot.Heroic age, the age when the heroes,or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. |
HERO'ICAL, a. The same as heroic. [Little used.] |
HERO'ICALLY, adv. In the manner of a hero; with valor; bravely; courageously; intrepidly. The wall was heroically defended. |
HER'OINE, n. her'oin. A female hero; a woman of a brave spirit. [Heroess is not in use.] |
HER'OISM, n. The qualities of a hero; bravery; courage; intrepidity; particularly in war. |
HER'ON, n. A large fowl of the genus Ardea, a great devourer of fish. |
HER'ONSHAW, n. A place where herons breed. |
HE'ROSHIP, n. The character of a hero. |
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