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hero
hero is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- 5noun
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
- 6noun
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to See her
- 7noun
someone who fights for a cause
- 8noun
(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
- 9noun
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
"RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"
- 10noun
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
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