Definition of Heros

1. hero [n] - See also: hero

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heros

herolike
heron
heron's bill
heroner
heroners
heronlike
heronries
heronry
herons
heronsew
heronsews
heronshaw
heronshaws
heroon
heroons
heros (current term)
heroship
heroships
herostratic
herostratically
herp
herpangia
herpangina
herpes B encephalomyelitis
herpes circinatus bullosus
herpes corneae
herpes desquamans
herpes digitalis

Literary usage of Heros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by William Smith, Henry Wace (1882)
"It is not improbable that heros allied himself with the cause of the rebel ... Lazarus bishop of Aix and his friend heros were both denounced by Zosimus as ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1834)
"... heros, a native of Africa. By CHARLES WILLCOX, Curator of the Museum of the Portsmouth and Portsea Literary and Philosophical Society. ..."

3. Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Hero of Saint Domingo, Soldier, Statesman, Martyr by Charles W. Mossell, Thomas Prosper Gragnon-Lacoste (1896)
"The Guerriere weighed anchor after about five or six days, and joined the heros, anchored before the Cape, and on board of which all the prisoners were ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... and celebrate the Memory of those brave heros of former Times, who generously postponed all that could be dear to them in this world to the Glory and ..."

5. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"Genera about 25; species about 120, inhabiting the rivers of Africa and tropical America, the genus heros extending into the limits of the United States. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"... a new heros from Mexico," by Henry W. Fowler, was presented for publication. The following minute on the death of Lewis Woolman was unanimously adopted: ..."

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