noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a war hero
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At home he was hailed as a war hero.
die a hero/rich man etc
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He died a hero on the battlefield.
folk hero
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Casey Jones is an American folk hero.
hailed a hero
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A young man is being hailed a hero tonight after rescuing two children.
hero worship
tragic hero (= the main person in a tragedy )
unsung heroes
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one of the unsung heroes of French politics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
folk
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Just the kind of marginal folk hero they would go and use as a mascot.
great
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When Finubar returned to Ulthuan he was hailed as a great hero .
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And indeed for a time Patroclus fought as gloriously as that great hero himself could have done.
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The Warden of the City is the great Elven hero Eltharion.
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He was a personage of quite another order from the great hero of Athens, Theseus.
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His chief councillor and military leader was William of Toulouse, one of the great Frankish heroes .
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The great Athenian hero was Theseus.
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I no longer cared about seeing the film, though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery.
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With their behavior toward Mr Cengic, they have made him an even greater hero of his country.
local
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In my section I had one of my local heroes , Tony Scott, about four or five pegs away.
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The subjects of Wuerttemberg felt terrible, for they considered the count a local hero .
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Because you're a local hero to her.
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Hill had established himself as a local hero and also as something of an eccentric.
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He has a real medal chance so if Henley wants a local hero it's time to pay up.
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The firefighters have become local heroes for their search and rescue efforts after the blast.
national
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He was a national hero and now he had the leverage to change golf.
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His exploits on the Colorado River had made him a national hero , the most celebrated adventurer since Lewis and Clark.
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This boy is a celebrity here, a national hero .
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Brave, adventurous, single-minded, he died a national hero .
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Charismatic, charming, he'd become a national hero .
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At Silverstone, Hunt was the national hero .
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Punjabis are now with the police, and Mr Gill is a national hero .
popular
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Yet Lowry was a popular hero who, when he died in 1977, was the most famous painter in Britain.
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Farmers squealed that the popular porcine hero fueled a drop in pork sales as children boycotted Babe on a platter.
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Inventors like Edison, Westinghouse, and Bell were popular heroes , to be emulated by younger men.
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There is no more popular hero than Hercules.
real
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Maybe you'd know how to act if you had some more positive role models and some real heroes in your life.
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Jim Magilton was made man of the match but for many United fans new keeper Phil Whitehead was the real hero .
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Not Margarita, one of the real heroes of the book.
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But my real hero was Victor de Sabata.
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Their fantasy helps when the kids start thinking the wrestlers are heroes and the wrestlers become something like real heroes.
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Stuntmen and stand-ins are the real heroes .
tragic
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Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.
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Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero .
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But Laker, like all tragic heroes , had his fatal flaw, hubris.
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In most cases the pesme sing of tragic heroes who met violent deaths, martyrs to the national cause.
unsung
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The ground crews within the Army Air Corps are generally the unsung heroes behind everything we do.
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Tonight we meet some of the unsung heroes of Inspector Morse - the extras.
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This country is full of unsung heroes .
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Jimmy Wilde - one of the great unsung heroes of Crystal Palace, until today!
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They were the unsung heroes of the whole appeal.
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Les Stocker is another unsung hero in the Honours List.
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They indicate that the big lad from West Birk Hatt is probably one of the finest unsung heroes of the last war.
young
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Instead of portraying a puffy-faced old tyrant, Picasso had drawn a young hero .
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The guards hear him knocking and shouting but then our young hero comes back.
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Thousands of Keen disks were ordered last month by EGA/VGA users proving the undying popularity of this loveable, young , hero .
■ NOUN
action
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Just ask Scratchman, the goofy action hero who crusades for truth, justice and the Texas Lottery.
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As an action hero , Fletcher fails miserably in this endeavor.
war
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What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family?
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Stewart was viewed in Washington as something of a war hero .
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I keep forgetting he's a war hero .
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Then the war heroes came back home and bumped Lucky out ofhis place at the livery.
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The ex-hunter, aviator and war hero , Tom Fairfax, who was her lover, is approaching in his biplane.
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We were both war heroes , and both of us had just been elected to Congress.
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Sometimes there were famous guests: heavyweight boxers, film actresses, war heroes , prime ministers.
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Local Republicans figured a wounded war hero would be a natural political candidate.
worship
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He had a tendency toward hero worship and often gushed embarrassingly in correspondence with his heroes.
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And it wasn't all hero worship .
■ VERB
become
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He became a hero when he rescued a number of people from a blazing house fire.
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The traditional outcast or pariah becomes the hero in this new age.
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Instead he became a national hero who enjoyed a long life ... and who died with dignity.
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By accident Jack became a hero , but maybe that was his nature, anyway.
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The governor became a hero to many of his staff and prisoners, including the one slashed.
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The Iron Man is befriended by a young child and in the end, becomes a hero .
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So when Calley was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he became a hero overnight.
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Sometimes I lie here and wonder how you ever became a hero .
hail
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When Finubar returned to Ulthuan he was hailed as a great hero .
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Rodgers, hailed none the less as a hero in papers across the country, was renowned for being taciturn.
play
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So you want to play the hero ?
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Hoffman plays a reluctant hero who disappears after rescuing plane crash survivors.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins says it's a privilege to play a romantic hero at 55.
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He was in his element playing doomed heroes and dandies, neurotics and aesthetes.
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You know now not to play the hero , don't you?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Conway returned home, hailed as a hero of the war.
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Hamlet is Shakespeare's most famous tragic hero .
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In cinema, the hero always got the girl and the bad guy was always punished.
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Indiana Jones is the hero of the film.
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Shakespeare's best-known tragic hero is probably Hamlet.
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sports heroes
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The hero of the story is a young soldier.
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Who was the hero of "The Catcher in the Rye"?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because Masten was his hero , he was a little nervous.
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Defense attorney Ana Ortiz, who referred to her client as Billyjack, said he is a hero by any name.
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Here we have the concept of the maverick, the hero innovator, the streetwise entrepreneur, that several speakers have described.
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His legend, like the stories of most heroes, begins badly.
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It is counterproductive to be derogatory about hairstyle, clothing, or current countercultural heroes.
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One is that the shelf life of heroes is short.
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Racing drivers appear to be larger-than-life heroes.