Synonyms of the word

hero

• n. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary deeds.
• n. A role model.
• n. The main protagonist in a work of fiction.
• n. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:…
• n. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
• n. (food styling, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed.

artificer

• n. Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
• n. An inventor.
• n. A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
• n. A trickster.
• n. A savant.

bomber

• n. A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
• n. A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
• n. A bomber jacket.
• n. (US) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
• adj. (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b…

champion

• n. Someone who has been a winner in a contest.
• n. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
• n. Someone who fights for a cause or status.
• n. Someone who fights on another's behalf.
• adj. (attributive) Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.
• adj. (attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
• adj. (predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
• v. (usually of a cause) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for.

character

• n. A being involved in the action of a story.
• n. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
• n. A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
• n. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
• n. A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially…
• n. A written or printed symbol, or letter.
• n. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
• n. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing…
• n. (informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
• n. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
• n. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
• n. (dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
• n. (dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To write (using characters); To describe.

defender

• n. Someone who defends people or property.
• n. (law) A lawyer who represents defendants.
• n. (Scotland, law) A defendant in a civil action.
• n. A fighter who repels an attack.
• n. (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

discoverer

• n. One who discovers; the person who discovered something.

fighter

• n. A person who fights; a combatant.
• n. A warrior; fighting soldier.
• n. A pugnacious, competitive person.
• n. (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially…
• n. A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of…
• n. A boxer or participant in any martial art.
• n. (colloquial) A firefighter.
• n. (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.

grinder

• n. One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
• n. (anatomical) A molar.
• n. A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually…
• n. (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
• n. A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
• n. The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
• n. (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.

guardian

• n. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
• n. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
• n. (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.

hoagie

• n. (US, central and eastern Pennsylvania) A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine…

hoagy

• n. Alternative form of hoagie.

inventor

• n. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

leader

• n. Any person that leads or directs.
• n. An animal that leads.
• n. Something that leads or conducts.

mathematician

• n. An expert on mathematics.

paladin

• n. A heroic champion (especially a knightly one).
• n. A defender or advocate of a noble cause. (A defender of faith).
• n. Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

persona

• n. A social role.
• n. A character played by an actor.
• n. (psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.

protector

• n. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
• n. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
• n. One who prevents interference.
• n. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international…
• n. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after…

role

• n. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
• n. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
• n. The function or position of something.
• n. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• n. (grammar): The function of a word in a phrase.

sandwich

• n. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other…
• n. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other…
• n. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
• v. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items.
• v. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
• adj. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

shielder

• n. Agent noun of shield: one who shields.

sub

• n. A submarine.
• n. A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
• n. (US, informal) A substitute.
• n. (Britain, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another…
• n. (Britain, informal, often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
• n. (informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.
• n. (Internet, informal) A subtitle.
• n. (computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from…
• n. (colloquial) A subeditor.
• n. (colloquial) A subcontractor.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
• v. (US, informal) To substitute for.
• v. (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
• v. (Britain) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
• v. (Britain, slang, transitive) To lend.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
• v. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
• prep. Under.
• v. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
• v. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

submarine

• adj. Undersea.
• adj. Hidden or undisclosed.
• adj. (baseball) Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
• n. A boat that can go underwater.
• n. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
• n. (baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
• n. Any submarine plant or animal.
• n. (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
• v. To operate or serve on a submarine.
• v. To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.

torpedo

• n. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
• n. A fish having wings that generate electric current, a kind of electric ray.
• n. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
• n. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
• n. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications,…
• n. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
• n. (rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning…
• n. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
• n. An automobile with a torpedo body.
• v. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
• v. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
• v. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

wedge

• n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered…
• n. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
• n. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting…
• n. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• n. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted…
• n. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• n. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• n. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
• n. (typography, US) háček.
• n. (phonetics) The IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• n. (meteorology) a wedge tornado.
• v. To support or secure using a wedge.
• v. To force into a narrow gap.
• v. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• v. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical…

zep

• n. (US, dialectal) A certain type of submarine sandwich.