Word Meanings - HERO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules. 2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action

Additional info about word: HERO

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules. 2. 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. Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. Emerson. 3. 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 Æneas in the Æneid. The shining quality of an epic hero. Dryden. Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes. Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. Carlyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HERO)

• Champion
• Hero
• warrior
• combatant
• vindicator
• challenger
• defender
• protector

Related words: (words related to HERO)

• WARRIORESS
  A female warrior. Spenser.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• VINDICATOR
  One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
• COMBATANT
  Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
• PROTECTORSHIP
  , The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
• CHAMPION
  cf. OHG. chempho, chemphio, fighter, champf, G. kampf, contest; perh. influenced by L. campus field, taken in the sense of "field of 1. One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's
• CHALLENGER
  One who challenges.
• VINDICATORY
  1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. 2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
• WARRIOR
  A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. Warrior ant , a reddish ant native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to
• PROTECTOR
  One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Is it concluded he shall be protector ! Shak. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
• CHAMPIONSHIP
  State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.
• PROTECTORAL
  Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
• PROTECTORATE
  1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares
• CHAMPIONNESS
  A female champion. Fairfax.
• NONCOMBATANT
  Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army;