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heroa

heroa is the plural of heroon.

Meaning of heroon

Noun

heroon (plural heroons or heroa)

  1. (historical) A temple dedicated to a hero, often over his supposed tomb.

Questions about heroa

What is heroa the plural of?
Heroa is the plural of heroon.

Words near heroa in the dictionary

  1. hero-myth
  2. hero-worship
  3. hero-worshipped
  4. hero-worshipping
  5. hero-worships
  6. heroa
  7. heroarchies
  8. heroarchy
  9. Herod
  10. Herodian
  11. Herodianic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heroa (page history and authors); heroon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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