Hero

['hɪərəʊ] or ['hɪro]

解释:

(noun.) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem.

(noun.) (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her.

(noun.) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god.

(noun.) a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; 'RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain'.

(noun.) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).

手打:奥拉夫--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

编辑:西尔维亚

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Brave man.[2]. Principal character.

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同义词及反义词：

[See CHAMPION]

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解释:

n. a man of distinguished bravery: any illustrious person: the principal figure in any history or work of fiction: (orig.) a demigod:—fem. Heroine (her′ō-in).—adj. Herō′ic becoming a hero: courageous: illustrious: daring rash.—n. a heroic verse: (pl.) extravagant phrases bombast.—adj. Herō′ical.—adv. Herō′ically—(Milt.) Herō′icly.—ns. Herō′icalness Herō′icness.—adjs. Herō′icomic -al consisting of a mixture of heroic and comic: designating the high burlesque.—ns. Her′oism the qualities of a hero: courage: boldness; Hē′roship the state of being a hero; Hē′ro-wor′ship the worship of heroes: excessive admiration of great men.—Heroic age the semi-mythical period of Greek history when the heroes or demigods were represented to have lived among men; Heroic medicines such as either kill or cure; Heroic size in sculpture larger than life but less than colossal; Heroic verse the style of verse in which the exploits of heroes are celebrated (in classical poetry the hexameter; in English and German the iambic of ten syllables; in French the alexandrine).

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