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| Achilles |
the hero of The Iliad, who is killed by an arrow in his heel, his only vulnerable spot. |
| Aeneas |
the Trojan hero of the Aeneid, who survives the fall of Troy, wanders for seven years, and becomes the founder of Rome. |
| Ahab |
the tragic hero of Herman Melville's nineteenth-century novel Moby Dick, who is ruled by an obsession to kill the white whale of the title. [1/2 definitions] |
| Beowulf |
the title character and hero of an anonymous, alliterative Old English epic poem. |
| epic |
referring or pertaining to a long poem that celebrates a hero or heroes and recounts their deeds in a grand style. [1/5 definitions] |
| heroic |
of or pertaining to a hero or heroes. [3/4 definitions] |
| hero-worship |
to have or show hero worship for. |
| idol |
one who is devotedly admired; hero. [1/3 definitions] |
| Jason |
in Greek mythology, the hero who voyaged in search of the Golden Fleece. |
| Ossian |
in Gaelic legend, a hero and poet of the third century. |
| poor boy |
see "hero sandwich." |
| Ramachandra |
the hero in the Ramayana. |
| Sherlock Holmes |
a fictional detective hero in many late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century short stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is described as having extraordinary powers of observation and deduction. [1/2 definitions] |
| Siegfried |
in Germanic legend and in The Nibelungenlied, a hero who wins the treasure of the Nibelungs and kills the dragon. |
| sub |
shortened form of "submarine sandwich," a large sandwich consisting of a long roll filled with a variable assortment of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments; hero sandwich. [1/5 definitions] |
| submarine sandwich |
a large sandwich consisting of a long roll filled with a variable assortment of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments; hero sandwich. |
| superman |
(cap.) the hero of an American radio and comic book series. [1/2 definitions] |
| ticker-tape parade |
a parade in which a championship sports team, war hero, or dignitary is showered with ticker tape, confetti, and the like from buildings along the parade route. |
| Tom Thumb |
the extremely small hero of many English folk tales. |
| villain |
in a fictional work, such a personage, or any agency, that causes trouble for, or opposes, the hero or heroine. [1/4 definitions] |
| Walter Mitty |
the main character of James Thurber's modern story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, who is mild and ineffectual, but who imagines himself a hero in various situations. [1/2 definitions] |
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