Synonym: Cuban sandwich, Hero, Hero of Alexandria, Heron, Italian sandwich, bomber, champion, fighter, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, paladin, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep. Similar words: erode, on the road, numerous, generous, border on, come round, a number of, take the road. Meaning: ['hɪrəʊ /'hɪər] n. 1. a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength 2. the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem 3. someone who fights for a cause 4. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) 5. (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god 6. (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her 7. 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.
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151. The hero does not enter until the second act/Act Two.
152. He was portrayed as a hero and,by inference, Thompson as the villain.
153. DiMaggio was an authentic folk hero.
154. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson
155. He was no hero: his final exit was ignominious.
156. It was named in honour of our departed hero.
157. They gave him a funeral befitting a national hero.
158. Crowds chanted the name of their new hero.
159. For this a grateful nation made him a hero.
160. My hero was close at hand.
161. Far from remaining a hero(sentencedict .com), he came to grief.
162. Ferguson is flawless, a folk hero in two countries.
163. Nevada high school football hero kills nerdy classmate, only to have his abusive sheriff father try to cover it up.
164. Michael Jordan was my hero, and meeting him in the flesh was a real thrill.
165. But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver.
166. His exploits on the Colorado River had made him a national hero, the most celebrated adventurer since Lewis and Clark.
167. In traditional fairy tales, the hero is rewarded and the enemy punished.
168. Cigarette ends growing into a mound similar to a cairn over a dead hero.
169. He was an exemplar of dedication, a hero who never lost his humanness.
170. The prison hero is the one who most openly shows anger and contempt for the staff.
171. Most unwillingly they went and stood before the hero in heavy silence.
172. Yet his subsequent collapse from hero to villain has been as sudden as a Patriot missile strike.
173. But the Arsenal boss was naturally delighted with hat-trick hero Wiltord.
174. His hero is Jefferson, but the reporters always imagined that George Gallup ran a close second.
175. Hoffman plays a reluctant hero who disappears after rescuing plane crash survivors.
176. The traditional outcast or pariah becomes the hero in this new age.
177. Always an example of devotion to duty, and as unflinching as a hero in a book.
178. He hoped to escape El Paso, do great things, and return home a hero.
179. Peterborough substitute Peter Costello had a great chance to be an instant hero.
180. As an action hero, Fletcher fails miserably in this endeavor.
More similar words: erode, on the road, numerous, generous, border on, come round, a number of, take the road, a matter of, any number of, cholesterol, obstreperous, sooner or later, to the number of, as a matter of fact, a large number of, get the better of.