See war hero on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for war hero meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "war heroes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "war heroes"
},
"expansion": "war hero (plural war heroes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Amie Dockery, Designing Your Dream Husband",
"text": "For one, at a very young age he became a war hero who had slain a giant.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Alan Allen, Ronald Reagan & the Evil Empire",
"text": "George went off to fight Nazis, later was described as a war hero.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, David T Zabecki, Chief of Staff, Vol. 2",
"text": "He apparently found in Rommel a German war hero who shared his doubts and uncertainties.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Mark White, “Apparent Perfection: The Image of John F. Kennedy”, in History, volume 98, number 2, page 226",
"text": "Kennedy's presidency is examined for the way it reinforced ideas about him that had come to the fore before he became chief executive: his use of the White House to showcase the arts, thereby strengthening his image as a man of letters and cultural refinement; the enhancing of his war-hero status with the release of the Hollywood film PT-109; the continued eroticization of his image through his public links with Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Anita Ekberg; and the prominence of his wife, siblings, children and parents in reinforcing the image of JFK as a symbol of the family.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who commits an act of heroism in a combat setting."
],
"id": "en-war_hero-en-noun-AiFvLhJy",
"links": [
[
"heroism",
"heroism"
],
[
"combat",
"combat"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "war veteran"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "war-hero"
},
{
"word": "warhero"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "qazi"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oorlogsheld"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "sotasankari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "héros de guerre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kriegsheld"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eroe di guerra"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bohater wojenny"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "héroe de guerra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "krigshjälte"
}
]
}
],
"word": "war hero"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "war heroes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "war heroes"
},
"expansion": "war hero (plural war heroes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "war veteran"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Amie Dockery, Designing Your Dream Husband",
"text": "For one, at a very young age he became a war hero who had slain a giant.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Alan Allen, Ronald Reagan & the Evil Empire",
"text": "George went off to fight Nazis, later was described as a war hero.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, David T Zabecki, Chief of Staff, Vol. 2",
"text": "He apparently found in Rommel a German war hero who shared his doubts and uncertainties.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Mark White, “Apparent Perfection: The Image of John F. Kennedy”, in History, volume 98, number 2, page 226",
"text": "Kennedy's presidency is examined for the way it reinforced ideas about him that had come to the fore before he became chief executive: his use of the White House to showcase the arts, thereby strengthening his image as a man of letters and cultural refinement; the enhancing of his war-hero status with the release of the Hollywood film PT-109; the continued eroticization of his image through his public links with Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Anita Ekberg; and the prominence of his wife, siblings, children and parents in reinforcing the image of JFK as a symbol of the family.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who commits an act of heroism in a combat setting."
],
"links": [
[
"heroism",
"heroism"
],
[
"combat",
"combat"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "war-hero"
},
{
"word": "warhero"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "qazi"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oorlogsheld"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "sotasankari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "héros de guerre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kriegsheld"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eroe di guerra"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bohater wojenny"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "héroe de guerra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "krigshjälte"
}
],
"word": "war hero"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.