| herald | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: trumpeter |
| heraldry | (noun) emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
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| (noun) the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies | - |
| herb | (noun) aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | - |
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| (noun) a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests | Synonyms: herbaceous plant |
| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| herbal | (noun) tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs | Synonyms: herb tea, herbal tea |
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| herbalist | (noun) a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | Synonyms: herb doctor |
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| herbarium | (noun) a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study | - |
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| herbicide | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: weed killer, weedkiller |
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| herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| here | (noun) the present location; this place; location, proximal pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, proximal | - |
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| hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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| (noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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| (noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
| hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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| (noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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| herm | (noun) a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost | - |
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| hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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| hermaphrodite | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
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| hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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| (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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| hermit | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: anchorite |
| hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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| hernia | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: herniation |
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| herniation | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: hernia |
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| hero | (noun) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem | - |
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| (noun) 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 | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength | - |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, fighter, paladin |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god | - |
| heroic | (noun) a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter | Synonyms: heroic meter, heroic verse |
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| heroics | (noun) ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct | - |
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| heroin | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: diacetylmorphine |
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| heroine | (noun) a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds | - |
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| (noun) the main good female character in a work of fiction | - |
| heroism | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| heroization | (noun) the act, or the result, of making someone into a hero. | - |
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| heron | (noun) grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill | - |
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| heronry | (noun) a breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery | - |
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| herpangia | (noun) a viral infection (usually in children) marked by sore throat and fever and papules in the mouth and throat and headache and abdominal pain; usually subsides in a short time | - |
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| herpes | (noun) any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin | Synonyms: herpes virus |
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| (noun) viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane | - |
| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| herpetology | (noun) the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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| herrerasaurus | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaur |
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| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| herringbone | (noun) a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern | - |
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| (noun) a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery | Synonyms: herringbone pattern |
| hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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