admire a hero

  • 1hero-worship — hero worships, hero worshipping, hero worshipped (The noun is also spelled hero worship.) 1) N UNCOUNT Hero worship is a very great admiration of someone and a belief that they are special or perfect. Singer Brett Anderson inspires old fashioned… …

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  • 2hero-worship — hero ,worship1 noun uncount strong admiration for someone, especially when this is rather extreme or unreasonable hero worship hero ,worship 2 verb transitive to admire someone in an extreme or unreasonable way …

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  • 3hero worship — ► NOUN ▪ excessive admiration for someone. ► VERB (hero worship) ▪ admire excessively …

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  • 4hero — [[t]hɪ͟əroʊ[/t]] ♦♦♦ heroes 1) N COUNT The hero of a book, play, film, or story is the main male character, who usually has good qualities. The hero of Doctor Zhivago dies in 1929. ...the author s decision to make his hero a photographer. Syn:… …

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  • 5hero */*/ — UK [ˈhɪərəʊ] / US [ˈhɪroʊ] noun [countable] Word forms hero : singular hero plural heroes 1) a) someone who has done something brave, for example saving a person s life or risking their own life a war hero The sisters were treated as local heroes …

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  • 6hero — he|ro [ hırou ] (plural he|roes) noun count ** 1. ) someone who has done something brave, for example saving a person s life or risking their own life: a war hero The sisters were treated as local heroes after rescuing a two year old boy from… …

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  • 7hero — noun plural heroes (C) 1 a man who is admired for doing something extremely brave: He had dared to speak out against injustice, and overnight he became a national hero. | war hero (=a soldier who was very brave in a war) 2 the man or boy who is… …

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  • 8hero worship — noun excessive admiration for someone. verb (hero worship) admire excessively. Derivatives hero worshipper noun …

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  • 9admire — Synonyms and related words: OK, accept, accord respect to, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, approve, approve of, bless, cherish, consider, countenance, dearly love, defer to, deify, delight in, endorse, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, favor …

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  • 10hero worship — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Druidism, Eros, Parsiism, Platonic love, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism, accolade, accord respect to, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, adulation, affection, agape, animal worship,… …

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