hero
noun
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character.
heroes
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pluralof hero.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Abstract Expressionist painters are the new heroes in Greenwich Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The heroes for the Dodgers on Sunday needed no introduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
She wrote how the farmers were "heroes" and now needed help to rebuild fencing destroyed by flame, as well as cover the cost of emergency feed and water for their animals during heatwave conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Bare and Huddleston, two self-described “country hicks,” have become polarizing heroes of the rural campaign against the AI technology rewiring geopolitics, the economy—and now hometowns like theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
I thought about that day with Thomas, when we’d been staring at the portraits of space heroes and legends in the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
