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hero collapse: the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem; (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her; (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god; a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"; Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

villain collapse: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately; the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction

whippersnapper collapse: someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

paleography collapse: the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

viking collapse: any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries

plankton collapse: the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water

constable collapse: a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff; a police officer of the lowest rank; English landscape painter (1776-1837)

sycophant collapse: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

butcher collapse: a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market; a brutal indiscriminate murderer; a retailer of meat; kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

privateer collapse: a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation; an officer or crew member of a privateer

genius collapse: exceptional creative ability; someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

rifle collapse: a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"; go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"

mountebank collapse: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

lieutenant collapse: an officer in a police force; a commissioned military officer; an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade

personage collapse: another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door"

Don Juan collapse: any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman); a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas

seducer collapse: a man who takes advantage of women; a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing

man collapse: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"; one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea; an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"; a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"; an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"; the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"; a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"; provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"; take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"

rioter collapse: troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority

jackal collapse: Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

dud collapse: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"

internal collapse: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"; occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation"

nullity collapse: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

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