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.
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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241. He was a celebrated folk hero in his adopted Darlington from his arrival in 1919 to his death in 1946.
242. He was a hero who had risked life for his fellow men, but he died convicted of treason.
243. Wilkinson was a hero and a villain on his debut in a Merseyside derby.
244. Are people entitled to steal the hero of a novel and put him in situations not envisaged by the original author?
245. There are variant versions, but this perfectly fits the vase-picture: Theseus, the hero in the foreground.
246. The hero and the villain, of course, are common to both, but their personal characteristics may differ greatly.
247. Here was a hero with icy eyes and a disdainful mouth - typically male!
248. He plays New York detective David Mitchell, a hero with 30 arrests to his credit but an aversion to killing.
249. Grissom, the hero of Game 2, broke in, planted himself, and looked up.
250. Just ask Scratchman, the goofy action hero who crusades for truth, justice and the Texas Lottery.
251. Not to hurt or be hurt, not to be a good citizen or a hero or a moral man.
252. The hero uses violence in an almost casual way and the consequences are never properly addressed.
253. David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero.
254. This would be such a female as our already seriously humbled hero could not manhandle as mere booty.
255. I liked the story,(http://sentencedict.com/hero.html) except when the hero dies at the end.
256. The wound would immediately heal, the waste land become green, and the saving hero himself be installed as king.
257. He became a hero when he rescued a number of people from a blazing house fire.
258. He also points out that many hero myths exist in which the hero is found in a basket, on water.
259. And Hilary had dash, and style, and good looks - all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero.
260. Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.
261. He was a hero in the fight for independence from France.
262. Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him?
263. Indeed, Abraham, more cosmopolitan and less legalistic than Moses, became the favourite hero of such concoctions.
264. In September 1927 he returned here a hero and urged San Diego to build the airport, already named for him.
265. Just the kind of marginal folk hero they would go and use as a mascot.
266. They often fought each other and attacked humans until slain by a brave hero, frequently at an ancient site.
267. This construction of the artist as hero is a primary marker of the modern period.
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.