Synonym: Hero, Hero of Alexandria, Heron. Similar words: later on, border on, aeronautics, gerontology, testosterone, gerontocracy, hero, zero. Meaning: ['herən] 
n. 1. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) 2. grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill.
n. 1. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) 2. grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill. 
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(1) The heron flapped slowly off across the lake.
(2) Egrets and a solitary grey heron were busily feeding.
(3) Heron is a private company and is not quoted on the Stock Market.
(4) The service at Heron Lodge failed to live up to its reputation .
(5) One looked very much like a heron.
(6) The heron profile that she saw through the grille.
(7) Heron like the gently sloping muddy sides of canals.
(8) Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
(9) Crawford says Blue Heron officials insist a soundstage is sorely needed to boost film revenues here.
(10) A heron or crane had been made out of solid bronze by an artist commissioned by the cultural society.
(11) There is a heron carved on the top of the box.
(12) The heron gobbled up land crabs which, without the herons, had become a pest on the islands.
(13) A heron lifted itself delicately off a sewage pipe and flew away.
(14) Surely some one somewhere knows who killed Ann Heron and that person could ease the pain for her heartbroken family.
(15) The installed heron is already banking away on invisible air forces, away from the mayhem.
(16) Write-downs in housebuilding were ￡40 million and Heron estimates the value of its land bank is 60 percent below its peak. Sentencedict.com
(17) A blue-grey heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand, and a cormorant flew high overhead like a goose.
(18) A big white heron gallops out of the creek on his gawky orange legs and gobbles it up.
(19) A proposal for the restructuring of Heron International was presented to its banks and bondholders.
(20) I could see a heron standing motionless, and a curlew dabbling by the shore.
(21) A great white heron uses a water buffalo as a fishing perch.
(22) I learned a lot from heron both the positive and negative sides.
(23) Moorhens, mallards, grebes and a heron work the murky water for their evening meals.
(24) Hawk and heron, teal and lapwing make a habitat in the tall brush and skimpy trees.
(25) Achieving a standstill is vital for Heron if it is to make headway in rescheduling its debt.
(26) And in this issue, I review yet another anti-heron gizmo which switches on the fountain when the heron alights.
(27) Traveling south along the Yellowstone River, you will pass blue heron, ducks, geese and trumpeter swans.
(28) The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off.
(29) And bird watchers find quiet places to spot a heron or woodpecker.
(30) An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose.