hero

hero has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
• n.. 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.
• 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.
• n.. the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
• n.. 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
• n.. (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
• n.. someone who fights for a cause
• n.. (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
• n.. a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"
• n.. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)