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(1):

(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.

(2):

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

(3):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hero'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hero.html. 1828.
 
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