(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
(3) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
(4) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
(5) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(6) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(7) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(8) Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , has a mysterious hero, John Rokesmith, who turns out to be someone different from the person we were told he was.
(9) At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.
(10) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(11) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(12) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
(13) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
(14) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
(15) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
(16) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
(17) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) Reagan's youthful hero was FDR – another optimist, albeit a far steelier one – who turned the federal government into the agent of recovery from the Great Depression and of victory in World War II.
(20) "The FA decision-makers can become the heroes that protected the national game.
Lafayette
Definition:
(n.) The dollar fish.
(n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
(2) Phenix appears to be Houser’s last permanent address, but he had been in Lafayette, a city of 124,000 roughly 500 miles west, for long enough to make an impression on local business owners.
(3) On Friday, police in Lafayette, Louisiana, were trying to piece together scraps of a life and a motive.
(4) A lone gunman opened fire inside a crowded movie theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana , on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring at least nine others before taking his own life, police said.
(5) The study was conducted in the three contiguous counties of Johnson, Lafayette and Pettis in west central Missouri.
(6) They are moving into Lafayette Park and my dad wants to join the soccer team there.” Allen’s parents are not alone.
(7) Subjects were 48 prisoners examined regarding a mock theft in a peer threat context; physiological responses were recorded simultaneously on a Lafayette field polygraph and a Sensor Medics laboratory polygraph.
(8) David Callecod, president of Lafayette General Health, said all five people treated at his hospital had gunshot wounds.
(9) Lafayette shooting victims were a bright student and an artistic entrepeneur Read more But the nation’s capital has shown itself to be even more resistant to gun reforms, despite an aggressive effort by Barack Obama to expand background checks after the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
(10) Extensive surveys were conducted in 1987 in Baytown, TX; Lafayette, Shreveport and Baton Rouge, LA; Memphis, TN; Kansas City, MO; Evansville, IN; and Jacksonville, FL.
(11) Speaking to CNN, Jindal said: “This was an awful, awful night – for Lafayette, for Louisiana, for our entire country.
(12) On Thursday night, Lafayette, Louisiana , found itself at the center of a tragedy.
(13) Lafayette’s police chief, Jim Craft, said a quick response by police officers prevented further deaths.
(14) Map - Lafayette location Later it emerged that two teachers who had been in the theatre had raised the alarm and one had even thrown herself in front of the shooter to save her friend.
(15) John Houser named by police as Lafayette movie theater gunman Read more Among them were two teachers from Jeanerette high school, Jena Meaux and Allister Viator Martin.
(16) Johnson, who died in hospital, was co-owner with her husband of a craft shop, the Red Arrow Workshop, in Lafayette.
(17) The only connection they had found between Craft and Lafayette so far was that he had an uncle who lived there – but he had been dead for 35 years.
(18) The big names – Aurora , Sandy Hook , Fort Hood , Tucson , Virginia Tech, Lafayette , Isla Vista , the Navy Yard , Charleston – you remember.
(19) The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed to GuardianUS that it is investigating the University of Texas, Alpha Genesis, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Primate Products, University of California, Davis, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Emory University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, over potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act.