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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hero \He"ro\, n.; pl {Heroes}. [F. h['e]ros, L. heros, Gr ?.]
1. (Myth.) 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 [AE]neas in the [AE]neid.
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.
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