Crossword-Solution: HERO 4 letters, 890 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Hero	n.	An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
Hero	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.
Hero	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
HERO	anagram	HOER, HORE, OHER, OHRE, ORHE, RHEO, ROHE

We have 890 clues for the answer “HERO”

Clue	Answers
"A Novel Without a __" ("Vanity Fair" subtitle)	1 answer
"A ___ Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich" (young adult novel by Alice Childress)	1 answer
"Anti-___" (Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me")	1 answer
"Anti-___" (Taylor Swift song)	1 answer
"Don't be a ___!"	1 answer
"Elvis was a ___ to most, but he never meant shit to me you see": Public Enemy	1 answer
"Grinder," in New Englander parlance	1 answer
"Last Action ___" (1993 adventure flick)	1 answer
"Last Action ___" (1993)	1 answer
"Much Ado" character.	1 answer
"My ___ Academia" (manga series)	1 answer
"My ___ Academia" (popular manga about a super-school)	1 answer
"My ___!" (damsel's cry)	1 answer
"My ___," Oscar Straus song.	1 answer
"My ___," Straus song	1 answer
"No man is a ___ to his valet" (Cornuel)	1 answer
Brave protagonist in many tales	1 answer
"Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald	1 answer
"Somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown," per Tom Hanks	1 answer
"Someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself," according to Joseph Campbell	1 answer
"Sully" Sullenberger, notably	1 answer
"The mask falls, the man remains, and the ___ disappears."—Rousseau.	1 answer
"There goes my ___"	1 answer
"There goes my ___" Foo Fighters	1 answer
"Three cheers" recipient	1 answer
"We Don't Need Another ___" (Tina Turner)	1 answer
"You cannot be a ___ without being a coward": Shaw	1 answer
"Zero to ___" (song from "Hercules")	1 answer
#1 hit for Mariah Carey	1 answer
Sub sandwich, in deli lingo	1 answer
1901 Maugham novel, with "The"	1 answer
1992 Dustin Hoffman film	1 answer
1992 Dustin Hoffman movie	1 answer
1992 Hoffman-Garcia film	1 answer
1992 film directed by Stephen Frears	1 answer
1993 Mariah Carey chart topper	1 answer
1993 Mariah Carey hit	1 answer
1993 chart topper for Mariah Carey	1 answer
2004 Jet Li film	1 answer
Figure honored for courage	1 answer
6-foot-long party order, perhaps	1 answer
The Last American ___	1 answer
A heroine of "Much Ado About Nothing."	1 answer
A model of noble qualities.	1 answer
A person of courage	1 answer
A priestess of Aphrodite	1 answer
A semi-divine being in Greek religion	1 answer
APHRODITE at Sestos, beautiful priestess of	1 answer
APHRODITE, priestess of	1 answer
Achilles or Ajax	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAERE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with HERO (5)

All the air was white with moonlight, All the water black with shadow, And around him the Suggema, The mosquito, sang his war-song, And the fire-flies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him; And the bull-frog, the Dahinda, Thrust his head into the moonlight, Fixed his yellow eyes upon him, Sobbed and sank beneath the surface; And anon a thousand whistles, Answered over all the fen-lands, And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Far off on the reedy margin, Heralded the hero’s coming.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Then the greatest hero of the Frogs jumped upon the Log and commenced dancing up and down upon it, thereupon all the Frogs came and did the same; and for some time the Frogs went about their business every day without taking the slightest notice of their new King Log lying in their midst.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Among these, the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Fervently she rose into the hardier feeling of action and daring, the pride in hero-strength and hero-blood, until in a splendid burst, tall and shining like a Victory, she christened him:— “Siegmund— So nenn ich dich!” Her impatience for the sword swelled with her anticipation of his act, and throwing her arms above her head, she fairly tore a sword out of the empty air for him, before _Nothung_ had left the tree.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with HERO (3)

Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward." I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this." I'm going to be th…

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

P. G. Wodehouse Love Among the Chickens

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done... which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Terry Pratchett Hogfather

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,152 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).