Actor vs. Hero

Actornoun

A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.

Actornoun

One who acts; a doer.

Actornoun

One who takes part in a situation.

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(legal) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

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(legal) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

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(policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.

Actornoun

(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

Actornoun

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.

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An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

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a theatrical performer

Actornoun

a person who acts and gets things done;

Actor

An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance (also actress; see below). The actor performs in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television.

Heronoun

Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary deeds.

Heronoun

A role model.

Heronoun

(authorship) The main protagonist in a work of fiction.

Heronoun

(poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: any opponent player. Not to be confused with a weak call against a supposed bluff.

Heronoun

(US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.

Heronoun

The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed.

Heronoun

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

Heronoun

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.

Heronoun

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 Æneas in the Æneid.

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a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength;

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the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

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someone who fights for a cause

Heronoun

Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

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(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

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(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

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a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Hero

A hero (heroine in its feminine form) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly solely gender-specific terms (like actor), hero is often used to refer to any gender, though heroine only refers to women.