greatest hero

collocation in English

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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hero
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhɪə.rəʊ/us
/ˈhɪr.oʊ/
a person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved ...
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(Definition ofgreatandherofrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He is known for having thegreatestheroroles in many films in the period 1970-1990.
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And as with most young boys, his dad is hisgreatesthero.
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Stan then realizes the person he has hated for years is his actually hisgreatesthero.
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Most of them were inaugurated before 1964, in which period he was actually considered the most influential leader and thegreatestheroof the wartime period.
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I venture to think that no other country would treat its greatest heroes like this.
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He is one of the greatest heroes of this century.
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We hear little of these men and women—they do not blow their own trumpets, but they are among our greatest heroes and heroines.
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Perhaps the greatest heroes of all are some of the factory managers who successfully start up a new unit in what to them is an unfamiliar area.
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Gentleman's greatest heroes helped to achieve freedom in that country and it is not a country that we now regard as one against which we are likely to deploy battleships.
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She summons the greatest heroes to her airship to find the being.
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This made him one of the greatest heroes in the history of aviation.
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He was one of the greatest heroes of all time.
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